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33 



Ialutations. 




H E beautiful in business. To portray this sentiment has been the aim of this produc- 
tion, in which the pen has been very Uberally supplemented by the graphic pencil of the 



As a publication, descriptive and illustrative, it is quite unique in the history of the 
publishers' art in Chicago. Indeed, its aim has seldom been attempted anywhere with the prodigal 
spirit of this wiork. 

Of all our continental trade centers, Chicago is pre-eminent as the abode, not the resting" 
place but the treadmill, of stern matter-of-fact, business. 

The dominant inspiration that has developed this mighty metropolis, which now stands majestic in 
its grandeur, the pride of all our great nation, and the wonder of the world, was business. 

Chicago is great, her business interests are vast, her busy citizens liave done their duty well, and 
have fully earned their right to the desire that is steadily increasing among all, for the beautiful, the adorn- 
ments, the delights of the higher developments and conditions of life, socially and commercially. This 
sentiment is rapidly increasing, as exhibited in the liberality in taste and expenditure bestowed upon 
the homes, parks, churches, schools, places of amusement, art galleries, and business establishments. 
Everywhere and in everything is seen a desire to beautify and display the accumulations of wealth, 
resulting from -abundant business. 

Labor is not always picturesque. But there is an element of beauty in business, however com-- 
monplace, and it is the earnest endeavor of this publication to realize that fact. Of the success of 
this intended effect, the decision is for the critical judgment of the reader. 

In venturing into a special field of illustrative publication, many were the obstacles to be over- 
come, to obtain a result worthy of the aim and claim ; the best of art, the best in method, representing 
the best of our business enterprises. 

Many of the engravings are the productions of the Levytype Photo-Engraving Company, from 
designs and sketches by Carl Durand, Paul C. Lautraup, George Bentham, Wm. Scheuer, Hjalmer 
Ellingson, A. A. Fasel, A. DeProsse, A. B. Sterner, Charles Lelewer, H. Barnick and others, all 
well-known artists and designers, under the immediate supervision of Mr. J. S. Gookins. 

But aside from our co-laborers and patrons, there are others to be specially accredited for the 
appearance of this book — the officers and managers of the Exposition itself. To their wise foresight, 
liberality, and energy is due all credit for the success of the great undertaking, that, supplied the in- 
centive for this and, doubtless, for a multitude of other enterprises. Great exhibits of the arts and 
labors of mankind are fostering fountains for industrious endeavors. 

With a desire to render homage to those to whom homage is due, this book is respectfully 
dedicated to the Officers of the Inter-State Industrial Exposition of Chicago for 1883. 

GEORGE M. BARBOUR, 

Hditor. 




iURELY IeRSCNAL. 



HE EXPOSITION ! " exclaimed Grace, " certainly we must go! 
Why, indeed, it is the positive duty of all Chicagoans to go 
' early and often ' as you men say about voting. I think it is 
an almost unpardonable sin for anybody in Chicago to fail to 
visit our Exposition, and every one says this is to be the great- 
est and best display of all." Grace is, you perceive, a true 
daughter of the Garden City, a perfect little stalwart in her 
admiration of our glorious, enterprising, and only Chicago. 

Her expressive outburst was so genuine and so unexpected, 
that for a moment Guy was quite speechless, and he could 
only stare at the fair enthusiast in mute amazement, mingled 
with a certain admiration. 

"Well," he rejoined, as he regained his usual admirable com- 
posure; "Well, then it is all settled that we are to attend there 
to - morrow and devote the entire day to revelling in the won- 
ders of genius and triumphs of art gathered in that 
temple of industry — our pet pride, the great Exposition 
Building, eh I O! by-the-by, I met Don this afternoon 
and invited him to come around bright and early in the 
morning and assist us on one of your tempting break- 
fasts. You see, I knew that would fetch him right on 
time and no mistake, for he is such an epicure, and you 
should just hear him once ! how he does boast to the 
fellows about your cooking; the 'perfection of artistic feed- 
ing,' he expresses it. And then, after the alluring breakfast, 
we will proceed to organize ourselves into a compact 
excursion party for a day at the ' greatest and only ' Expo- 
sition. There now! " 

In his method for securing a man right on time, Guy 
was quite correct. A man may forget the hour agreed for 
a business engagement, and be provokingly negligent in 
the matter of keeping appointments, but invite him to a 
grand banquet, or a dainty breakfast, and he will almost 
surely be on time. Don appeared just as Guy predicted, 
and soon they were merrily discussing the appetizing 
breakfast and their vivid anticipations of a day of pleasure. 

But possibly you have never yet met any of our little party who are so eagerly planning to spend a day with you 
in rambling amid the countless attractions and wonders displayed in the great Exposition, so I will introduce them 
as they are enjoying their breakfast. 

Guy and his charming young wife, Grace, are in their own home, a cosy cottage in the environs of the city, a 
congenial neighborhood, possessing all the advantages and comforts of both city and country, with none of the petty 
annoyances frequently incidental in each. He is an attache of a great publishing house down town, and the 
Exposition is to him a recreation and an occupation. 

Don is an artist, a confirmed bachelor in good standing, and the particularly intimate friend of the cosy 
cottagers, and he is a prime favorite with everybody who knew him, one of the sort referred to by his fellow chums 
as " a good fellow," and by his lady friends as " ever so nice." Don is quite indispensable on a holiday excursion 
like this. 

All three are thorough Chicagoans of the most loyal order, and their creed is, " Chicago is Chicago, it is great, 
yea, verily, and there is none other like unto it, Selah! Marry, go to! " 

Anything having a semblance of being in any degree a Chicago specialty is certain of their unquestioning 
admiration, hence their enthusiastic interest in our Exposition. 

The indispensable, social bond being thus duly cemented after the unconventional manner quite usual among 
congenial spirits meeting in unexpected places, where each and all are on pleasure and recreation bent, now we — 
that is, we mean our little party and the reader — will at once waive all further formalities and become mutually 
confidential, and share with each other our confidences and opinions about what we shall see and hear in our holiday 
rambles through the great show, and as we visit among the wonderful business enterprises, and learn how money is 
made in Chicago. 



We See and Iehrn Iomething. 




CHARMING morning ! 
perfect Chicago sum- 
mer weather; clear, 
mild, cool, bracing air, 
the perfection for a hol- 
iday, it pervades all 
with a keen sense of en- 
joyment and good hu- 
mor. A short journey 
on the cable cars (per- 
fection of rapid and 
pleasant transit in a 
city), and here we are 
at the portals of the 
greatest and only (well, 
that is, in Chicago, you know!) Exposition. 
Seen in the early morning of a pleasant 
day, the great structure, in its holiday 
attire, is itself a display quite worth view- 
ing. "Oh, isn't it grand ! " was the excla- 
mation of Grace as we paused on the 
corner of Jackson street and Michigan 
avenue, where one obtains the best per- 
spective view of the building, and her ex- 
pressive ejaculation just exactly described 
it. Its great rounding, red-hued roof, its 
three vast towers, the countless windows, 
the myriads of gay flags, great and small, 
fluttering in the breeze from every possible 
salient point, the airy glistening conserva- 
tory, the pretty green park along the entire 
front and the glittering waters of Lake 
Michigan forming the vast background, 
combine a noble picture. Grace was cor- 
rect ; it was "grand! " 
AVe are quite wise. We wish to examine and under- 
stand the objects of art, science, skill and brain herein so 
abundantly displayed, and we have chosen exactly the 
proper hour of all for that purpose — the forenoon. 

In the afternoon is the time when one may see the 
people " at large," view a great crowd, sit and eat ice 
cream and dainties, lounge near the fountain, watching its 
sparkling waters, listen to the orchestra, and kill " old 
time " generally. 

In the evening is the time to see the " oh, how per- 
fectly lovely ! " effect of the countless electric lights in 
colored glass globes, and the glittering machinery, and 
Cupid holds high carnival here with the happy young 
people at this hour. 

Passing through the roomy entrance, the full glory of 
the great show is arrayed before us. It is in truth a superb. 



a brilliant scene that bursts upon the vision and the visitor 
is quite certain to halt short in an overwhelmed, half dazed 
condition, from which he is only aroused by the push of 
the fellow just behind him, and he spasmodically gasps — 
well everybody has their own patent standard variety of 
gasp expressly for use on such choice occasions. The 
Oh's! Ah's! My's! Well's! Wal's! and such are the great 
majority. Don cautiously remarked : " Ah, yes, indeed 
quite fine." 

Grace exclaimed, " Have you my fan? here let me take 
it and you may carry my parasol; isn't the fountain nice? 
I wonder when the band will play? " It is rather difficult 
to decide just how much of surprise she really felt. 

But any degree of surprise is pardonable, for the scene 
is grandeur itself. 

Directly in the center, right before you, is the great 
fountain, a superb work of art, standing nearly fifty feet 
high, throwing jets .and sprays, and large streams of water 
from all its mysterious outlets, fully seventy feet in the air, 
to tumble back in a foaming torrent in the vast circular 
basin that is fifty feet in diameter and three feet deep. This 
basin is fringed with a row of large glass table tanks, each 
containing living specimens of many varieties of fish, and 
interspersed amidst these tables are large clusters of ferns 
and flowers. 

Beyond, and high above, is the orchestra box, daily 
occupied by a band of forty selected musicians in gay 
uniforms and constantly rendering beautiful selections of 
music, " foreign and domestic." Flags, streamers, banners 
and gay hued and curiously designed signs are everywhere, 
the air is full of them. And way above all, one hundred 
and fifty feet high, spreads the vast cavernous ceiling with 
its hundreds of gigantic trussed arches, that with their 
bewildering ramifications of long, slender iron braces and 
girders and ties, suggest to the bedazzled imagination 
some Titanic spider web, and you half expect to see a 
Jumbo-sized spider go spinning along through the seem- 
ingly limitless space. 

Descending from this contemplative mood to subjects 
more realistic, Don's, optical sense was suddenly enrap- 
tured by the figure of a gentleman vanishing in the dis- 
tance, and he exclaimed: 

" Why, there he is now, the very man we're wanting," 
and off he frantically dashed, vigorously beckoning to Guy 
and Grace to follow. A moment more and the sought- 
for personage was surrounded, and captured. He at once 
surrendered. It was John P. Reynolds, the original, the 
present and the only Secretary of this great " Inter-State 
Industrial Exposition of Chicago." Quite naturally, he is 
a perfectly authentic encyclopedia of all the history and 
facts of it from its earliest conception to this date. 




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Secretary of the I liter- State Industrial Exposition of Chicago. 



tion as one of the finest in that arena where all was 
elegance. 

Watching a favorable moment to secure the attention 
of the polite manager in charge of the exhibit, we at once 
confronted him with a volley of hastily prepared questions, 
but we didn't disturb his complacent serenity, not a bit. 
His experience in this sort of attack by ladies innumera- 
ble, has drilled him to perfection, and he was admirable 
as the "party of the second part," in an interview. 

Of the special features of this famous machine, he in- 
formed us " The New Wilson Oscillating Shuttle 
Sewing Machine is wonderful in its conception, and 
unequaled in its capacity, for doing a large range of 
sewing in textile fabrics and in leather. Its motions are 
continuous, admitting of an extraordinary rate of speed 
either by steam or foot power. Every motion of the 
treadle makes six stitches, thus producing about one-third 
more work in a day than other sewing machines. It has 
no stop motions, and tightens the stitch with the needle 
out of the fabric. Pt uses the well-known Wilson Com- 
pound Feed on both sides of the needle. It has two- 
thirds less parts than any other first-class sewing machine. 
Its arm is fully eight inches long and five inches high. 



and the whole machine is very compactly and scientifically 
constructed. In its proportions, elegance of design and 
general appearance, it is unsurpassed. Its simple, power- 
ful and perfect mechanism places it as far in advance of 
all other sewing machines, as the telephone is superior to 
the tin speaking-tube. The Wilson Mending Attachment, 
for repairing all kinds of textile fabrics without patching, 
is furnished free with all Wilson Sewing Machines, to- 
gether with a luck-marker, ruffler, set of hemmers, binder, 
etc." 

As we turned away to other scenes, said Grace to Don, 
who had all the while been a silent observer, " Now, what 
did you think of the Wilson Sewing Machine ; wasn't 
it simply perfect ? " " What was I thinking ? " exclaimed 
Don, "Adam and Eve! The Song of the Shirt! The Yel- 
low Chinaman! The Sturdy Sailor! The Zulu! The 
Sailmaker! The Shoemaker! Uncle Sam! that was what 
I was thinking of." " Why, what do you mean," was 
Grace's puzzled rejoinder. "Well," said Don, "I will show 
you." And on the next page the reader will at a glance 
understand his contemplative inspiration. He is an artist, 
and tells his story as you perceive. 





THE WILSON SEWING MACHINE. 



Jfl,/IR.YEL OF (SeNIUS. 




UR little party very soon decided to visit the 
gallery, tempted by the apparent opportunity 
there presented for a broad, sweeping view 
across the entire exhibition ; besides, they 
learned that many of the most wonderful objects on 
display were to be seen in the stalls up there. 

Their anticipations were more than realized ; the 
scene presented was interesting and exceedingly grand. 
It is a place where one may secure a reserved nook, or 
point of observation, and revel in contemplating the mar- 
velous and wondrous display so replete with brain - work 
and instructive recreation. It is a fascinating study, and 
the gallery is a good place to fully appreciate it. 

Don's attention was there captured by a particularly 
attractive stall, a perfect office of the most elegant order 
in its appointments, wherein were displayed numerous 
strange machines, much resembling sewing machines at 
first sight, but in reality they were Type-Writers. 

It was the exhibit of the wonderful Remington Type- 
Writing Machines, one of the greatest of the greater 
inventions and discoveries of this age. A machine that 
prints much faster than any expert penman can possibly 
ivritc. 

" Oh," exclaimed Grace, " are these machines type- 
writers ? Why, they remind me somewhat of an organ 
and sewing machine combined, without a treadle. Well, 
I have heard so much about them, but never yet had a 
good chance to see one ; let's ask them to- show us." It 
was a good idea, for Guy and Don were also quite desirous 
to learn how the " thing goes," and Don at once effected 
an acquaintance with Mr. W. O. Wyckoff, of the firm of 
Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict, who was fortunately 
present. 

He invited Don and his companions into an elegantly 
furnished, cosy, office - like booth. On all sides were 
observed a large number of Type - Writers, of various 
styles of finish, for every class of work. Several young 
ladies, experts in operating the machines, were in attend- 
ance to practically illustrate and explain to all enquirers 
how they work and what they perform. 

The information and explanations learned of Mr. 
Wyckoff were deeply interesting. 

Said he, "About fourteen years ago, E. N. Sholes, an 
editor in Milwaukee, a man of an unusually inventive turn 
of mind, was studying out an idea for a machine to 
number book pages, when the thought was suggested to 
him that he might make a machine to print letters with 
type. But how to do it? He wrestled a long time with 
the puzzling subject, and at last hit upon a plan that 
appeared practical, and he set about putting his ideas into 
tangible form. 

" In due time a machine was constructed and tried, 
and successfully performed its desired mission. The 
deed was accomplished ! He had won ! " 

It may interest the enquiring reader to know thai one 
of the original machines, rude, crude and clumsy, but 
effective, is now in possession of Mr. Wyckoff, who 
exhibited it to our party, and it is one of the chief 
wonders of the Exposition. 



About 1S73, after various incidents and vicissitudes, 
generally the history of all really great inventions, the 
wealthy firm of E. Remington & Sons — famous all 
over the world as the manufacturers of guns, rifles, car- 
bines, sewing machines, etc, — obtained possession of its 
patents. 

At once perceiving its great utility and value, and the 
wide popularity it would attain, and the demand it would 
surely secure from the public when its purpose was 
thoroughly understood, they prepared machinery on an 
extensive scale for the manufacture. The demand at 
first was slow, but increased with immense strides, until 
now the sales average upwards of Jive liiiiidred per month, 
and this ratio is increasing weekly. 

The manufactory is at Ilion, N. Y. Messrs. Wyckoff, 
Seamans & Benedict recently became the sole agents for 
the sale of this Type-AVriter, and in view of the pre- 
ponderance of the demand from the trade being in the 
West, they selected Chicago as one of their headquarters. 
Their offices are at No. 38 East Madison street, and 
have been fitted up in elegant manner for their special 
convenience. 

This firm appoint, direct, and supply all their numerous 
army of agents, local and traveling, all over the world. 
The extent of the business is daily rapidly increasing, 
and assuming vast proportions. Like the electric light, 
the telephone, and steam railways, it is becoming indispen- 
sable to business enterprise, and will soon become a per- 
manent feature in all offices, particularly in legal and 
correspondence vocations. 

Of its special intrinsic merits, Mr. Wyckoff further 
stated; "The Standard Remington Type-Writer is 
acknowledged to be the only rapid, reliable and perfect 
writing machine. It practically has no rival. Attempts 
to put upon the market rival writing machines under high- 
sounding names, by avoiding the Remington patents and 
by means of clumsy and impractical devices, have been 
made; but in each instance they have proved failures. 

" No first-class business house in Chicago having, 
a large correspondence, can be found trying to do busi- 
ness without one or more of these machines. They are 
now used largely for billirig as well as for general corre- 
spondence. Types and key-boards are provided for that 
purpose. They are now in use in every part of the globe, 
doing their work in almost every known language. Any 
young man or woman of ordinary ability, having a practi- 
cal knowledge of the use of this machine, may find con- 
stant and very remunerative employment. This knowl- 
edge can be acquired in a few weeks. All machines, ink- 
ing ribbons and supplies, furnished by us, are warranted. 
Satisfaction is guaranteed or money refunded. All goods 
in our line can be found at 38 East Madison street, where 
our customers will always receive prompt and polite at- 
tention. 

" We have thousands of machines in use by the lead- 
ing business and professional men, and take great pleas- 
ure in referring to any of our patrons in substantiation of 
every claim made for the instrument. 

"The facilities of the Remingtons for the raanufac- 



ture of fine machinery' are well known, which, added to ten years of experience 
in the construction of Writing Machines, with full control of the patents — have 
enabled them to produce a machine fully adapted to the wants of the public. 

" The Standard Type - Writer is a handsome, compact and practically 
noiseless machine, simple, accurate and durable in construction, is quickly 
understood, and can be used at once by any one. 

" By its aid correspondence and composition can be accomplished in at least 
one-third the time consumed in pen-writing, and with a degree of neatness, com- 
pactness, and precision not to be obtained in the old-fashioned way. 

"Attention is specially directed to the fact that the Remington has but thirty- 
eight keys, yet operates seventy-si.x types! This is very important to an operator. 
It prints capitals and small types with the same keys." Here Mr. Wvckoff 
requested an assistant to give us a practical demonstration of how they are 
operated. It was exceedingly interesting. A more easy, graceful, simple, lady- 
;: — - like occupation surely could not be imagined. 

To ladies especially the Remington Tvpe- 
AVriter opens an unlimited field for useful, 
pleasant and remunerative occupation. 
W ith manv thanks to 4Ir. Wyckoff for 
hib courtesies, our little party reluc- 
tantl) sought for other objects of 
~ interest, each meditating a vague 

idea that nothing is impossi- 
ble. Guy solemnly remarked, 
" Well now that just beats 
all, don't it? " Grace and 
Don were silent, lan- 
guage utterly failed. 
The) looked their 
answer Don's 
pencil tells its 
story of his 
impression. 




A Iale of fiLEs ,/i.ND Ierfect Iricks. 




ASSING along, our little party were next at- 
tracted by a ponderous machine, one of tlie 
famous Gregg patent, in the process of mak- 
ing specimens of bricks and tiles. It was a 
very curious sight to observe the masses of shapeless clay 
disappear in the jaws of the machine, and quickly reap- 
pear as beautiful objects of ornamentation. 

It 'Was the exhibit of The Western Brick and 
TiLF. Manuf.^cturing Company, where, following the 
example of a large group bf interested observers, our little 
party halted and watched the operations of the machine, 
and enjoyed an inspection of the results of its labor in 
the large collection of bricks and tiles, almost innum- 
erable in variety of form and ornamental finish. 

" How very different," suddenly remarked Don, " is the 
style of architecture now so prevalent, especially in our 
cities, from that of about ten years ago. Then, it was all 
given to a display of marble fronts, or cheap imitations of 
marble, mansard roofs, circle top windows, broad, clumsy 
cornices, with hideous galvanized iron brackets, or absurd 
cast iron fronts, etc. 

" But now observe the perfect elegance of the ornate 
business structures here in Chicago, and especially of the 
surburban residences. Those of recent design are all 
beautiful; in fact, as a rule, they may be described as works 
of art. Their picturesque effect is really quite fascinating; 
.such charming doorways, beautiful windows, surprising 
gables and grand chimneys ! And then the wealth of 
colors; warm, dark reds, with black or dark red mortar 
joints, and soft browns. I think a ramble along any one 
of our recently 'built-up' avenues, especially 'the park- 
like boulevards, is much like a stroll through a picture 
gallery," finally concluded Don. 

It is a subject in which our artist is quite " at home," 
which accounts for his unusually long speech. 

"Yes," replied Guy, "you are right; but do you 
perceive the true cause of the present good sense and 
taste in architecture? It is brick I I was about to say 
common, simple brick, but the bricks of the present age 
are iwl all the common things of the past, but rather are 
objects of study and meritorious art. Thus, after many long 
decades of experimenting with every possible material in 
the construction of buildings, our architects have wisely 
returned to the correct principles of constructive art of 
the earliest cizilization — Bricks ! Bricks without straw. 
Bricks by steam. Brickmaking has become an art, a 
scientific manufacturing enterprise, of which this Company, 
The Western Brick and Tile Manufacturing 
Company, is one of the largest and most flourishing rep- 
resentatives — an enterprise that ranks to-day as one of the 
leading industrial concerns of Chicago." 



In a short chat with the polite gentleman in charge of 
the exhibit, we learned; 

" In brick making, as in all other industries where the 
demand is great and rapidly growing, machinery is re- 
placing hand labor, and as a result it is not only possible 
to bring the rate of production up to the demands of the 
market, but the quality of the product is vastly superior 
to that of the best hand-made article ; and with the system 
here shown, the quality of brick manufactured is far in 
advance of the product of other machines. Bricks made 
by machinery have been commonly deficient in strength, 
unequal in size and density. The Gregg Triple Pressure 
Brick Machine possesses new and valuable features, which 
insure a yield of bricks excelling the best hand-made, 
and at a comparatively small cost. These bricks are 
superior in appearance, and in the matter of homogeneity 
and strength they are, beyond all doubt, far ahead of any 
other brick made. 

" Complete tests have been made, and officially deter- 
mined and reported, by Bvt. Maj. Gen. Q. A. Gilmore, 
Lt.-Col. Engineers, U. S. A., and by the Supervising 
Architect of the United States at the Treasury Depart- 
ment, at Washington, D. C, with the most satisfactory 
results, and these bricks were ordered to be used in the 
Government work. 

" The mechanical construction of these machines is 
such that the heavy developing pressure takes place while 
the mould table is at rest, thus requiring but a nominal 
amount of power to operate them. 

" The Gregg Machine is the invention of Col. Wm. L. 
Gregg, Room i6. No. 53 Dearborn street, Chicago. It 
has already obtained a world-wide reputation, and has 
been exhibited, and invariably received the highest 
awards, at various great Expositions in this country and in 
Europe. 

" Bricks, through all ages to the present day, have and 
must ever be, during the continuance of time, the favorite 
building material. 

" The bricks of Thothmes III. are impressed with his 
cartouch, as Roman brick - makers had their special 
marks. In this way the Twenty-second Legion has been 
traced through Germany. Roman bricks are found in 
England inscribed Legion II., Aug., and other bricks 
attest the presence there of the Si.'cth and Ninth Legions. 
Enamelled bricks are found in the Mound of the Mujelli- 
beh, in Mesopotamia. These facts prove the durability of 
bricks, and all kinds of stone work is rapidly giving 
place to ceramics in the form of ornamental and shapely 
bricks. 

" It is a conceded fact, then, that brick, in all countries 
and for allclimates, is the best building material, not only 



resisting the action of the elements and the ravages 
of time, but withstanding the action of fire and water in 
great conflagrations, better than stone." 

The Western Brick and Tile Manufacturing 
Company, is organized under the general laws of the 
State of Illinois, with an authorized capital of $500,000, 
for the purpose of manufacturing brick, paving tile and 
other ceramic products, under the Gregg system, the ex- 
clusive rights for the State of Illinois being owned by the 
Company. The officers are, Homer Pennock, President; 
A. W. Penny, Secretary, and Edward Koch, Treasurer. 

The general offices are at Room 16, No. 53 Dearborn 
street, Chicago. The yard and kilns of the company are 



in the suburbs of the city, and rapidly supplying the de- 
mand for their superior work. Mr. Grepg's shops for 
the manufacture of the brick-machine is just outside the 
city. 

On the preceding page the reader will see a beautiful 
illustration, which graphically represents samples of very 
many varieties of their artistic work. There is, of course, 
no limit to the various designs of bricks and tiles they 
can produce. 

Every desired product in constructive and decorative 
work is possible in clay, when shaped by the Gregg 
Machine and made by the Western Brick and Tile 
Company. 



I SlEA^I iOMFORT. 




I HERE," said Guy, pointing to a neatly ar- 
ranged exhibit that seemed to be a constant 
source of interest to observing visitors, 
" right there is an invention that strikes me as 
one of the most useful and comforting for service in every 
home, of anything in all this show. It is so handy, and 
useful, and cheap for the good it can do, that every 
family, certainly those with children, should be compelled 
to own one, especially all occupants of tenements. You 
see, neat, clean children very seldom grow up disorderly, 
unworthy citizens. It's the dirty ragamuffins that 
furnish business for the police, so that invention there 



ought to be regarded as a sort of patent sanitary police 
force." 

Don and Grace calmly stood and stared at Guy as he 
delivered his argument. They knew his hobby, and that 
he would conclude in entire safety. 

It was the exhibit of " The Chicago Folding Bath 
Tub " that caused Guy's discoursive lecture. It is, in 
fact, a remarkably useful and convenient invention, fully 
deserving the praise and admiration it obtains from 
all. The cartoon illustrations on the opposite page fully 
realizes to the reader the good reasons for Guy's ad- 
miration. 







THE COMFORTS OF A CONVENIENT BATH TUB. 




CABINET IN USE. 

THE CHICSGO FOLDING BITH TUB 

Office No. 119 Twenty-Second Street, Chicago. 

It is endorsed by every one who has used it ; It is an elegant 
piece of furniture ; It may be had in cabinet form or flush with the 
wall ; All tubs have a mirror in front ; It is cheaper than a bath 
room ; It saves room, occupying when closed a space of only 2 feet. 
6 inches x 2 feet, 7 inches ; All tubs have secured to them waterproof 
floor cloths which /o/d in ivith the tubs and can be used if desired ; It 
enables one to bathe in his bed chamber, thus avoiding dangerous 
changes of temperature ; It presents a pleasing appearance when 
open or closed ; The best bath tub for Hotels, Cottages, Flats, Hos- 
pitals, or any place where a bath tub is needed ; It saves the trouble 
of dressing before the morning bath or re -dressing after the evening 
bath ; It can be prepared for removal by simply unscrewing the pipe 
couplings, thus making it portable ; Its mechanism is simple and can 
not get out of order ; It can be opened or closed by the most delicate 
person ; Each part adjusts itself automatically ; The interior closet 
is a convenient receptacle for towels and other toilet articles ; Each 
tub is provided with a lock ; When closed, the tub is protected from 
injuries to which the stationary tub is exposed. 

REFERENCES. 
John M. Van Osdel, architect, 41 Clark St. 
Burnham and Root, architects, 115 Dearborn St, 
W. W. Boyington, architect, 157 La Salle St. 
L. E. Dixon, architect, 102 Washington St. 
S. M. Randolph, architect. Room 51, Lakeside Building. 
Edbrooke and Eurnbara, architects, 184 Dearborn St. 
Frederick Bauman, architect, Metropolitao Block. 
George H, Edbrooke, architect, no Dearborn St. 
Wheelock and Clay, architects, 77 and 70 Dearborn St, 
John C. Cochrdin, architect. Room 78. Ashland Eiock. 
J. V. Wadskier, architect, 126 Dearborn St. 
\\. L. Beers, architect, Room 46, Major Block. 
Treat and Foltz, architects, 80 Dearborn St, 
E, S. Tennison, architect, 151 Alonroe St, 
Wm. Longhurst. architect, 113 Madison St. 
J. Ir^'ing Pearce, proprietor Sherman House. 
E, A. Batchelder, proprietor Southern Hotel. 
A H. Andrews and Co., 195 Wabash Ave. 
Jennie E. Smith, M. D., Central Music Hall. 
E, M. Hale, XL D., 65. 22nd St. 
Dr, Joshua Smith, cor. Michigan Ave. and 22nd St, 
H. B. Bryant, 77, 79 and 81 State St. 
W, T. Lewis, 103 State St. 
E. Baggot, plumber, 132, 5th Ave. 
J. L. Pattison, plumber, 81 Randolph St. 
Eassctt and Beaver, plumbers, 215 Slate St. 
Chappell and Wilber, plumbers, 26 and 28 State St. 
Martin Moylan, plumber, 103, 22nd St. 
Powers and Clark, plumbers, no, 22nd St. 
Thos. Kelly Eros., plumbers, 186 Dearborn St. 

i. H. Roache, plumber, 208, 31st St. 
. Wolff M'f'g. Co., plumbers' supplies, 103 to m W. Lake St. 




CLOSED CABINET. 



Record of Industry. 




BEAUTIFUL cabinet, richly decorated, the 

furnishings arranged in the utmost good 

taste, with a number of pianos, all superb 

instruments, therein displayed, was the 

next scene that caught the keen attention of Grace. 

With a quick, rapturous e.Kclamation, she was hasten- 
ing, via a bee-line route, to that special scene, her two 
somewhat perturbed escorts following in her wake to the 
best of their ability. 

" Why can't you drop some sort of a hint, you know, 
just to let a fellow get a bit of an idea where you intend 
to fly to, when you ' light out ' so mysteriously? You dart 
away like a flash, and somehow nobody seems to get in 
your way, while apparently everybody has a special case 
of urgent business right exactly in front of Don and 
I," said Guy, when they succeeded in overtaking the 
impulsive Grace, who had already reached the objective 
point she sought, and was -intently studying the elegant 
display 

" What splendid pianos! Isn't it a lovely display? " 
was her only e.xplanation. It certainly was, and on a 
second sight of it, our escorts both again pardoned the 
fair fugitive for giving them such a chase. 

It was the exhibit of the famous B.^uer Pianos, and 
fully justified the admiration so liberally bestowed by all 
observers, especially the ladies. 

Everybody in Chicago, surely, knows of Mr. Bauer. 
Bauer's Piano, and Bauer's Music House, are house- 
hold expressions, understood in every home, in every city 
or hamlet, in all the great Northwest. Wherever the 
gladdening notes of music may enter, there will the name 
of Bauer be at once recognized. 

His display of Pianos, Organs and all manner of Musi- 
cal Instruments at our Exposition is one of the most inter- 
esting among the many attractive exhibits. Attention is 
especially directed to the Pianos, they being of his own 
manufacture, and to the justly famous, superb Bauer 
Cabinet Grand Pianoforte, the marvel of musical 
perfection, that has borne off so many honors in com- 
petitive contests. 

But all who read know of his piano and musical 
wares, so we will present a record of Mr. Bauer himself. 

Mr. Julius Bauer is one ofthe most successful men 
in the Piano and Organ Business in America. He was 
born in Berlin, Germany, in 1S31, and at the early age of 
fourteen entered, as an apprentice, the factory of Mr. 
Riechel, where he remained several years. He also 
worked in a number of the most prominent piano fac- 



tories in Europe, making the science of acoustics a spe- 
cialty, in which he showed remarkable adaptability and 
genius. When only sixteen, Mr. Bauer made and per- 
fected a violin, which, in construction and tone, surprised 
professionals. 

In 1849, Mr. Bauer opened a general music store in 
New York city, and.it was here that he laid the founda- 
tion of his present extensive business. 

His first store in Chicago was established in 1857, at 
the corner of Clark and Washington streets. In 1864 
he was obliged to enlarge his facilities, and removed to 
the famous Crosby Opera House building, having at that 
time the finest music store in the United States. The 
business, from the start, was extremely prosperous, the 
firm of Julius Bauer & Co., besides manufacturing and 
dealing extensively in Pianos and Organs, ranking among 
the largest importers and jobbers of general Musical Mer- 
chandise in the country. The first great blow which 
came to the firm was in 187 1, when the disastrous Chi- 
cago fire swept away all the earnings of years, and left Mr. 
Bauer almost penniless. But he was not discouraged, 
and with pluck and energy, in a few weeks, fitted up 
warerooms in a church, where he pushed his business as 
hard as ever. In 1872 he removed to the Palmer House 
corner, where he remained until 1879, when he found it 
necessary to have more room, and removed to 182 and 
184 Wabash avenue, a five-story marble-front building. 
The business of Julius Bauer & Co. increased so 
rapidly that even this large store proved too small to 
meet the demands, and on the ist of last May they again 
moved to an immense building, at 156 and 158 Wabash 
avenue, near the corner of Monroe street, which they 
have leased for a number of years, and they now have 
one of the finest Piano and Organ Establishments in Chi- 
cago. 

The new store has six floors and a basement. The 
three upper floors are devoted to the work of finishing 
pianos, the case-making being done in another building. 
The first floor is occupied as a sales-room for Pianos and 
Organs ; the basement is used for storage purposes, and 
the two remaining floors are given up to Band and Miscel- 
laneous Musical Instruments, which are for sale either at 
wholesale or retail. , 

On another page the reader will see how our artist, 
Don, was impressed by Mr. Bauer, whose portrait is 
there presented, and his great business success. Surely 
the career of Mr. Bauer and his successful labor is " A 
Record of Industry." 




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THE WOOTOfJ DESK AT HOME. 



ardently enjoyed an inspection of the beauties of the 
various designs, and the ready pencil of our artist, 
Don, was quiclcly busy delineating, in the picturesque 
sketch herewith presented to the reader, an ideal study 
of the Decorative Tiles. The beauty of these ornamen- 
tations in a home room never tires nor diminishes, but 
ever creates and promotes a steady appreciation of the 
art beautiful. They civilize and refine. Good is the 
home brightened with Tiles. 



The Wooton Desk is a unique specialty of its 
kind, simply perfect for its purpose — a remarkable 
success. A Desk, a Cabinet, a Counting-House and a 
Record Depository, all combined, there is nothing else 
that equals it for convenience in the transaction of 
business. It leaves nothing to suggest. It is the desk 
of the age. It is constructed and elaborated in various 
styles, two of which are perfectly portrayed to the reader 
by our artist. 



I f AL/iTiAL Emporium. 




' ACH department of the Exposition having been 
visited, and the wares and objects carefully 
and conscientiously inspected, and duly dis- 
cussed in all their special merits, and the in- 
creasing throng of afternoon visitors being more intent on 
enjoying the music, the fountain, the elevator, the restau- 
rant, watching Cupid's pranks, and revelling in a mildly 
good time generally, our little party, including three or 
four additions of equally merry friends, held an impromptu 
council and resolved: Whereas, we have spent several 
hours here and completed a general review of the E.\po- 
sition, therefore it is resolved, that we do now go outside 
and enjoy a ramble about town, visiting divers of our 
notable business houses, to the end that we may see, and 
learn, where all these strange and beautiful wares come 
from, how they are made, and how they are turned into 
wealth ; and be it further resolved, that we go at once, 
and return here again to-day, or some other day. 

Guy put the motion, and it was carried unanimously, 
although Grace intimated her opinion that " it would be 
awfully nice to get a good seat and lazily listen to the 
music and watch the crowds come and go." 

However, we started on our sight-seeing tour. Turn- 
ing the corner of Adams street, on Wabash avenue, the 
attention of all, particularly the ladies, was attracted to 
the immense Millinery establishment of A. S. Gage & 
Company, with its walls of iron, ornamental brick, carved 
stone, and broad expanse of plate glass, through which 
could be seen the rich display within. It could not be 
resisted, the ladies insisted we must stop right there, the 
gentlemen willingly assented ; it may be added, they were 
as thoroughly interested and gratified as were their fair 
companions with what they saw and learned. 

The Millinery establishment of A. S. Gage & Com- 
pany, now upwards of a quarter of a century in existence, 
is one of the principal commercial enterprises of Chicago, 
and is undoubtedly one of the largest, in its line of busi- 
ness, in the world. 

Its high reputation is world-wide. Their great edifice, 
(where we visit,) is a veritable palace, perfect in its ele- 
gance, magnificent in its proportions, and faultless in its 
appointments. It is quite impossible for the visitor to 



fully realize the completeness of everything in this estab- 
lishment except by an extended inspection. The elegant 
vestibule entrance, the beautiful marble-work, frescoed 
panels, massive carved cherry and plate-glass doors ; the 
wood work, all of costly kinds, with elaborate carvings and 
mouldings everywhere employed throughout the great 
structure ; the handsome office partitions, desks, chairs, 
etc., all of richest designs; the marquetry flooring ; the or- 
nate chandeliers for gas and electricity; the perfected 
steam heating apparatus; the great roomy stairways, that 
ascend by easy stages, their posts and railings being spec- 
imens of art; the abundance of glittering brass ornamen- 
tations ; the rich hued roller shades to each of the multi- 
tude of immense plate- plass windows, that admit floods of 
bright light over the vast areas of the several floors ; the 
array of tables ranged in long lines, all laden with beauti- 
ful Millinery dainties, always bright and attractive ; abso- 
lute neatness everywhere conspicuous, and a pervading 
atmosphere of refined good taste ; all these accessories 
combine to produce a very impressive effect upon the ob- 
servant visitor. There is positively nothing to displease, 
nothing gaudy, loud, or noisy, all is perfect refinement. 

The building is 120 by 180 feet, ground dimensions, 
is six stories high, constructed of dark red pressed brick, 
elaborately trimmed with carved stone-work, and the style 
of architecture is unique in its perfect repose and grandeur. 
Massive strength and security are self-evident features. 
Superior taste and lavish expenditure is everywhere ap- 
parent. The several vast floors combine an area of over 
three and a half acres ! Three roomy elevators, two for 
freight and one for passengers, are required. The perfect 
light, thorough ventilation, exquisite neatness, and liberal- 
ity of equipment apd furnishing, everywhere observable, 
is quite remarkable. 

The vast business is sub-divided, for proper conveni- 
ence, into Departments, each under the management of a 
gentleman whose special fitness has been proven by time 
and experience. The first floor contains the Silk Depart- 
ment and Ribbons Department; the second floor, the vast 
Notions Department, buttons, yarns, parasols, bustles, 
skirts, perfumery, neckwear, rubber goods, etc., etc., in 
countless variety. The White Goods and Hosiery Depart- 



ment occupies the third floor. The fourth floor contains the 
Straw Goods. Flower and Feather Stocks. The fifth floor 
is the Corset Factory and Department, a very important 
branch of the business, employing upwards of fifty skilled 
lady employes. The sixth floor is required by the Straw 
Goods Factor_v, and the roof is occupied by the Dye House 
and Bleachery. It may be asserted that every floor and 
every Department, from the great basement, with its pow- 
erful engines, packing rooms, etc., upward to the broad 
roof, are all scenes of deep interest to the curious visitor. 
It is an impressive exhibition of enterprise, thorough or- 
der, and prosperous business, a very creditable type of a 
representative Chicago commercial house. 

The head of this great house is Mr. A. S. Gage. The 
other members of the firm are four gentlemen whose value, 
and ability, have each been long tried and were proven 
worthy of their responsibility. Mr. Charles Brewer, of 
over twenty years service, and now in charge of the Rib- 
bons Department; Mr. FR.-iNK N. G.4GE, who has charge of 
the Silks; Mr. C. S. Burkholder, a thoroughly courteous 
and popular gentleman, and Mr. G. H. HovEV, the effi- 
cient financial manager. These gentlemen compose the 
firm. The assistant general manager, Mr. John W. 
POLLEY, has served . in this establishment upwards of 
twenty long years, his well known business abilit)' ren- 
dering him eminently qualified for that responsible posi- 
tion. Mr. C. S. LoNGENECKER has charge of the Dry 
Goods Department ; Mr. H. A. Morse, of the Notions; 
Mr. G. B. Halliday has the White Goods and Hosiery; 
Mr. H. E. Taft has the Straw Goods; Mr. J. H. Slater, 



the Flower and Feather Department ; Mrs. McCormick 
superintends the Pattern-Bonnet Making Rooms ; Mr. L. 
A. Downs is Superintendent of the Corset Factory ; and 
Mr. J. E. Brewster is Manager of the Straw-Goods 
Factory, that in itself requires upwards of 150 employes, 
mostly women. 

The establishment has Branch Houses for purchasing 
materials in the leading cities of Europe, and their trade 
extends to all nations of the world, exceeded by none. 

It is in fact a wonderful and vast industry, a pride 
and credit to Chicago. 

Bidding adieu to the courteous official who had 
escorted us over the establishment, explaining all its 
details, our party resumed their tour in search of other 
scenes of interesting industrj'. Each confessed a feel- 
ing of pleasant astonishment, quite indescribable in 
mere words. It was a commingling of the four seasons 
of the year, all compressed into one hour. Words fail to 
express it, and nothing but the graphic pencil of our artist 
friend, Don, could reveal our kaleidoscopic condition of 
mind, and we refer the attention of our reader to the scene 
portrayed on the back cover of this book. It ideally real- 
izes, so to express it, the possibilities suggested to a vis- 
itor to the establishment of A. S. Gage & Company. 

Grace, and her lady friends in our party, all enthusiast- 
ically declared, — well, lots of things. Our fair readers 
know just what was said, and ought to be said, on such a 
subject, and the gentlemen readers wouldn't comprehend 
it if we told them all, so we will not attempt the impossible 
task. Visit there. 




ardent!)' enjoyed an inspection of the beauties of the 
various designs, and the ready pencil of our artist, 
Don, was quiclily busy delineating, in the picturesque 
sketch herewith presented to the reader, an ideal study 
of the Decorative Tiles. The beauty of these ornamen- 
tations in a home room never tires nor diminishes, but 
ever creates and promotes a steady appreciation of the 
art beautiful. They civilize and refine. Good is the 
home brightened with Tiles. 



The Wooton Desk is a unique specialty of its 
kind, simply perfect for its purpose — a remarkable 
success. A Desk, a Cabinet, a Counting-House and a 
Record Depository, all combined, there is nothing else 
that equals it for convenience in the transaction of 
business. It leaves nothing to suggest. It is the desk 
of the age. It is constructed and elaborated in various 
styles, two of which are perfectly portrayed to the reader 
by our artist. 



I WALJiTlAL ImPORIUM. 




^^^M ACH department of the Exposition having been 
"° visited, and the wares and objects carefully 
and conscientiously inspected, and duly dis- 
cussed in all their special merits, and the in- 
creasing throng of afternoon visitors being more intent on 
enjoying the music, the fountain, the elevator, the restau- 
rant, watching Cupid's pranks, and revelling in a mildly 
good time generally, our little party, including three or 
four additions of equally merry friends, held an impromptu 
council and resolved: Whereas, we have spent several 
hours here and completed a general review of the Expo- 
sition, therefore it is resolved, that we do now go outside 
and enjoy a ramble about town, visiting divers of our 
notable business houses, to the end that we may see, and 
learn, where all these strange and beautiful wares come 
from, how they are made, and how they are turned into 
wealth ; and be it further resolved, that we go at once, 
and return here again to-day, or some other day. 

Guy put the motion, and it was carried unanimously, 
although Grace intimated her opinion that " it would be 
awfully nice to get a good seat and lazily listen to the 
music and watch the crowds come and go." 

However, we started on our sight-seeing tour. Turn- 
ing the corner of Adams street, on Wabash avenue, the 
attention of all, particularly the ladies, was attracted to 
the immense Millinery establishment of A. S. Gage & 
Company, with its walls of iron, ornamental brick, carved 
■Stone, and broad expanse of plate glass, through which 
could be seen the rich display within. It could not be 
resisted, the ladies insisted we must stop right there, the 
gentlemen willingly assented ; it may be added, they were 
as thoroughly interested and gratified as were their fair 
companions with what they saw and learned. 

The Millinery establishment of A. S. Gage & Com- 
pany, now upwards of a quarter of a century in existence, 
is one of the principal commercial enterprises of Chicago, 
and is undoubtedly one of the largest, in its line of busi- 
ness, in the world. 

Its high reputation is world-wide. Their great edifice, 
(where we visit,) is a veritable palace, perfect in its ele- 
gance, magnificent in its proportions, and faultless in its 
appointments. It is quite impossible for the visitor to 



fully realize the completeness of everything in this estab- 
lishment except by an extended inspection. The elegant 
vestibule entrance, the beautiful marble-work, frescoed 
panels, massive carved cherry and plate-glass doors ; the 
wood work, all of costly kinds, with elaborate carvings and 
mouldings everywhere employed throughout the great 
structure ; the handsome office partitions, desks, chairs, 
etc., all of richest designs; the marquetry flooring ; the or- 
nate chandeliers for gas and electricity; the perfected 
steam heating apparatus; the great roomy stairways, that 
ascend by easy stages, their posts and railings being spec- 
imens of art; the abundance of glittering brass ornamen- 
tations ; the rich hued roller shades to each of the multi- 
tude of immense plate- plass windows, that admit floods of 
bright light over the vast areas of the several floors ; the 
array of tables ranged in long lines, all laden with beauti- 
ful Millinery dainties, always bright and attractive ; abso- 
lute neatness everywhere conspicuous, and a pervading 
atmosphere of refined good taste ; all these accessories 
combine to produce a very impressive effect upon the ob- 
servant visitor. There is positively nothing to displease, 
nothing gaudy, loud, or noisy, all is perfect refinement. 

The building is 120 by 180 feet, ground dimensions, 
is six stories high, constructed of dark red pressed brick, 
elaborately trimmed with carved stone-work, and the style 
of architecture is unique in its perfect repose and grandeur. 
Massive strength and security are self-evident features. 
Superior taste and lavish expenditure is everywhere ap- 
parent. The several vast floors combine an area of over 
three and a half acres ! Three roomy elevators, two for 
freight and one for passengers, are required. The perfect 
light, thorough ventilation, exquisite neatness, and liberal- 
ity of equipment and furnishing, everywhere observable, 
is quite remarkable. 

The vast business is sub-divided, for proper conveni- 
ence, into Departments, each under the management of a 
gentleman whose special fitness has been proven by time 
and experience. The first floor contains the Silk Depart- 
ment and Ribbons Department; the second floor, the vast 
Notions Department, buttons, yarns, parasols, bustles, 
skirts, perfumery, neckwear, rubber goods, etc., etc., in 
countless variety. The White Goods and Hosiery Depart- 



ment occupies the third floor. The fourth floor contains the 
Straw Goods. Flower and Feather Stocks. The fifth floor 
is the Corset Factory and Department, a very important 
branch of the business, employing upwards of fifty skilled 
lady employes. The sixth floor is required by the Straw 
Goods Factory, and the roof is occupied by the Dye House 
and Bleachery. It may be asserted that every floor and 
every Department, from the great basement, with its pow- 
erful engines, packing rooms, etc., upward to the broad 
roof, are all scenes of deep interest to the curious visitor. 
It is an impressive exhibition of enterprise, thorough or- 
der, and prosperous business, a very creditable t3'pe of a 
representative Chicago commercial house. 

The head of this great house is Mr. A. S. Gage. The 
other members of the firm are four gentlemen whose value, 
and ability, have each been long tried and were proven 
worthy of their responsibility. Mr. Charles Brewer, of 
over twenty years service, and now in charge of the Rib- 
bons Department; Mr. Fr.\nk N. Gage, who has charge of 
the Silks; Mr. C. S. Burkholder, a thoroughly courteous 
and popular gentleman, and Mr. G. H. Hovey, the effi- 
cient financial manager. These gentlemen compose the 
firm. The assistant general manager, Mr. John W. 
PoLLEY, has ser\'ed . in this establishment upwards of 
twenty long years, his well known business ability ren- 
dering him eminently qualified for that responsible posi- 
tion. Mr. C. S. LoNGENECKER has charge of the Dry 
Goods Department ; Mr. H. A. Morse, of the Notions; 
Mr. G. B. Halliday has the White Goods and Hosiery; 
Mr. H. E. Taft has the Straw Goods; Mr. J. H. Slater, 



the Flower and Feather Department ; Mrs. MgCormick 
superintends the Pattern-Bonnet Making Rooms ; Mr. L. 
A. Downs is Superintendent of the Corset Factory ; and 
Mr, J. E. Brewster is Manager of the Straw-Goods 
Factory, that in itself requires upwards of 150 employes, 
mostly women. 

The establishment has Branch Houses for purchasing 
materials in the leading cities of Europe, and their trade 
extends to all nations of the world, exceeded bj' none. 

It is in fact a wonderful and vast industry, a pride 
and credit to Chicago. 

Bidding adieu to the courteous official who had 
escorted us over the establishment, explaining all its 
details, our party resumed their tour in search of other 
scenes of interesting industr>-. Each confessed a feel- 
ing of pleasant astonishment, quite indescribable in 
mere words. It was a commingling of the four seasons 
of the year, all compressed into one hour. Words fail to 
express it, and nothing but the graphic pencil of our artist 
friend, Don, could reveal our kaleidoscopic condition of 
mind, and we refer the attention of our reader to the scene 
portrayed on the back cover of this book. It ideally real- 
izes, so to express it, the possibilities suggested to a vis- 
itor to the establishment of A. S. Gage & Comp.any. 

Grace, and her lady friends in our party, all enthusiast- 
ically declared, — ^well, lots of things. Our fair readers 
know just what was said, and ought to be said, on such a 
subject, and the gentlemen readers wouldn't comprehend 
it if we told them all, so we will not attempt the impossible 
task. Visit there. 








Something Safe. 




ERE" exclaimed Guy, as he suddenly halted our party 
of curiosity seekers in front of No. 57 State street, 
"here is. one of the most interesting and important 
industries in oyr city." It was the saleshouse of the 
DiEEOLD Safe and Lock Company. "You see," continued Guy, 
" the people of Chicago have a very vivid appreciation of the use- 
fulness and value of good safes, and, where there is anything worth 
saving, you will find a fire and burglar proof safe in the shop, 
factory, office, store, even in many dwellings, ranging in size from 
the little jewel safe, (a sort of a pocket or parlor edition,) up to 
the great massive bank vaults with their array of ponderous doors, 
bolts, grates, time locks, combination locks, and such securities. 
Let us step in and see them." They did so, and were soon grouped 
around the desk of Mr. John W. Norris, Vice President and 
Western Manager, this being his general office, and were eagerly 
interested in his descriptions of the details of his vast business. 

The manufactory of the Dieeold Safe and Lock Company 
is located in Canton, Ohio, and the whole country is divided into 
districts, in charge of managers, and their agents and salesmen are 
found in all the larger cities and towns throughout the country. This 











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DIEBOLD SAFES. — JOHN W. NORRIS, WESTERN MANAGER. 



is an organized stock company, with a very large capital, 
improved tools and machinery, and, being the largest safe 
manufacturers in the world, are always prepared to fill 
orders to any extent. The shops cover about eight acres, 
and employ upwards of eight hundred workmen, turning 
out sixty complete safes daily. Chicago is the principal 
distributing point, about three-fifths of the entire product 
passing through Mr. Norris' hands. 

Mr. Norris, with a pride quite pardonable, exhibits a 
volume of testimonials giving an unbroken record of 
success, wherever these safes have been tested by fire or 
burglars, cxtcm/iiig over a period of twenty years; during 
this time over One hundred thousand safes have been 
made, and are now in use by all classes, from the great 
Safe Deposit Vaults, worth $100,000, to the retail dealer, 
or chamber jewel safe, and are scattered over the entire 
commercial world. 

It would require quite a volume to enumerate the 
banks and business houses of this city, alone, that are 
supplied with the Diebold Safes and Vaults. 

" We furnished The First National Bank of Chi- 
cago," said Mr. NoRRiS, " with all its Fire and Burglar 
Proof protection, making the most expensive and most 
impregnable Banking outfit in the world, consisting of one 
immense Steel-lined Vault for Bank Reserve; one large 
Steel-lined Vault for use of Bank Tellers; two mammoth 
Steel-lined Safe Deposit Vaults; one large Burglar Proof 



Safe for Reserve Vault; twelve Burglar Proof Safes for 
the use of Tellers ; five sets of massive Burglar Proof 
Doors, each consisting of a ponderous outside and heavy 
folding inside doors, connected with steel vestibules, into 
which the folding doors open. Each set of these doors 
weigh from five fo ten tons. Also, seven sets of lighter 
Burglar Proof Doors, and forty-nine elegant Fire-Proof 
Doors. The contract cost was f roo,ooo. 

" The Safe Deposit Vaults will hold about 10,000 Safety 
Depositories. 

"And we have recently closed the contract to furnish 
and place the vaults, and all the safes, locks and such 
like fire and burglar proof fixtures for the Commercial 
National Bank, in the great building now being erected 
corner of Monroe and Dearborn streets." 

These were but a few of the more interesting points 
of information learned from Mr. Norris, but they 
serve to convey to our reader some idea of the vast 
transactions of this immense establishment, and of the 
confident regard entertained for their Safes and Supplies 
by the public. 

Our party enjoyed their stroll through the sales-room, 
and were greatly impressed with the display of won- 
derful locks and various devices for rendering vaults and 
safes secure from fire and burglars. Such mysterious in- 
tricacies and powerful combinations are exceedingly won- 
derful. As Guy predicted, it was a most interesting visit. 




SCENE IN STORE OF JOHN W. NORRIS, 5? STATE STREET, 



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Ifter MnnY Tears. 






ll'"PV years in tlie business; forty of 'em right 
lierc in Cliicago," was tlie terse, sententious 
ii'sponse — a tale of a long, busy life told in 
one dozen words. It was the history of Mr. 
Bishop, the respected head of the ever reliable old firm of 
A. Bishop & Co., importers and manufacturers of iMne 
Furs, and dealers in Hats and Caps, at their well known 
store, No. 164 State street, the business heart of Chicago. 

As our strolling party, all intent on sight-seeing, were 
passing by this store, an " Oh, do just see those beautiful 
furs ! " exclamation from the ladies drew the entire parly 
to the great show window, and the display therein was so 
rich, and altogether attractive, that it was at once unani- 
mously voted, "Let's go in." And we did so. The 
familiar figure of Mr. Bishop was spied in the distance, 
and he was at once surrounded, and the object of our 
breezy visit was detailed to him. Said Grace, " You have 
been in business here a long time, haven't you, Mr. 
Bishop?" Ho replied in the twelve words that open this 
chapter. 

" Want to see lots of my nice things, and hear about 
the trade, etc., do vou? "said he. " Well, you all seem to 
have good, bright eyes; " just then the eyes of the ladies 
all suddenly dropped to the floorl (not literally, oh, no, 
merely figuratively you know,) " and yon can enjoy your- 
selves all you desire, looking at the goods. About the 
state of our trade," said he to Guy and Hon, " Well, the 
attention of our friends and |iatrons is specially called to 
the unusual inducements we are enabled to offer tliis 
season in all kinds of Furs, and more particularly in the 
line of fine Seal Goods. 

" In anticipation of the largely increased demand, we 
have .secured a full supply of the finest London dyed Seal 
skins, selected by our special agents and imported direct, 
so that we are enabled to offer finer goods at lower prices 
than ever. The skins comprise the very best grades of 
South Sea, Shetland Island and Alaska Seal, such as are 
always selected for the best trade in the leading European 
cities ;^the culls and inferior stock being usually shipped to 
America), and they are conceded to be the finest skins 
ever brought to this country. \\'e are taking orders for 
Cloaks and Dolmans from this superb stock at less than 
other houses are obliged to charge for the common and 
inferior skins imported by New \'ork houses and sold to 
Western dealers in a regular wav. 

"In other lines of Furs we can olTer similar induce- 
ments. A practical experience of over forty years in the 
fur trade gives us unequaled facilities for buving and 
handling all kinds of Furs and Skins. We have special 
arrangements for purchasing and importing direct from 
the great fur markets at London and Leipzic, and our 



domestic Furs are consigned to us direct from the trappers 
in large quantities. From these consignments we select 
only the best skins for our own use, and these are care- 
fully finished under our own supervision. We can feliere- 
fore guarantee the very best quality of stock at the lowest 
possible prices. 

".\s so much depends on making up the l''ur Garments 
properly, we use only the best materials for lining, trim- 
ming, etc., and employ only the most skilled workmen, 
aiming at perfection in every detail. 

" We give particular attention to orders or inquiries by 
mail, and always exercise the greatest care in filling such 
orders, and in promptly furnishing the fullest information 
concerning styles and prices. 

" \\'e are prepared to dress all kinds of Fur Skins, and 
make up the same in any style or shape the owners may 
desire, at reasonable prices. 

" Seal Skin Sacques and Dolmans will continue, as in 
former seasons, to be our leading speciality. The beauty 
and elegance of our IjOndon dyed Seal, and the perfect 
fitting secured by our French patterns, are beyond all 
comparison, and give us an unquestioned superiority in 
this line. We are better prepared than ever this season to 
maintain our supremacy, and defy all competition, either 
in quality, style or prices. Our Sacques, Dolmans, Ulsters 
and Circulars are cut from whole skins (never pieced). 

" AVe also make a specialty of refitting Sacques and 
Dolmans of other makes, and of enlarging and lengthen- 
ing, without showing seams, and of trimming, reliningand 
repairing of all descriptions. 

"The Seal Circular is an entire novelty introduced by 
us last season. The superb elegance and comfort of this 
style was so marked that it created a decided sensation, 
and was extensively copied in the Eastern cities and in 
London. It forms a magnificent wrap for walking or 
riding, and is acknowledged to be the most convenient 
and comfortable of fur garments. 

" The favor which these Circulars Have met with since 
they were introduced, is the best possible jiroof that they 
will be one of the most popular styles during the coming 
season. 

" Our Seal Ulster, another decided novelty brought 
out by us toward the close of last season, also caused a 
very marketl sensation amongst the manufacturers and 
wearers of fur. The lining, ornaments and other details 
are varied to suit the fancy and taste of the wearer. AVe 
have already taken a number of orders for the coming 
season, and the Seal Ulster promises to be one of the 
prime favorites in the line of fur goods. 

".Attention is also called to our superior Mink Sacques 
and Dolmans of all styles anil qualities. A\'e use the 



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A SUGGESTION AT A^ BISHOP & GO'S, FUR AND HAT STORE. 



Maine, Nova Scotia, Northern and Western Mink, all of 
the best grades. The Sacques are cut so that the stripes 
run to the shoulder or to the collar, and are finished .with 
a deep .tail border, with raised or plain cuffs and rolling 
collar, plain or pointed. 

" The Muff is made to match the Sacque or Dolman, 
and the buttons and ornaments, as well as the linings and 
trimmings of both Sacque and Muff, are varied to suit the 
fancy of the wearer. 

" In the ordinary Fur Sets, consisting of Collar or 
Boa, with Muff and Cuffs to match, we have an unusually 
large and fine stock. These sets are made of nearly every 
description of fur. Among the leading and most popular 
styles are the Otter, the Mink of Minnesota, Wisconsin, 
Maine and Nova Scotia varieties, the Seal and imitation 
Seal, the Astrachan, the dyed and natural Beaver, Siberian 
Squirrel, Fisher, Silver Fox, Hudson Bay and Russian 
Sable, Ermine, Grebe and Chinchilla. These goods are 
.all finished and trimmed in the best style and are offered 
at very low prices. 

" We are showing some new and attractive styles in 
Silk Dolmans and Circulars, fur lined and trimmed, and 
we notice a growing demand for these elegant garments. 
We use all the different grades of silk, such as Armour, 
Sicilian, and Satin de Lyon. The linings are of the best 
quality of Siberian Squirrel, Ermine, or other suitable fur. 
The Circulars are finished with hood and tassels and 
fastened with oxidized or burnished silver clasps. The 
Dolmans are made from our own patterns, and are war- 
ranted to fit perfectly. They are finished either plain or 
with a border of any style of trimming fur desired. In 
addition to our own designs, which have always found so 
much favor, we have secured the agency for the celebrated 
house of Revillon Freres, 79 and 81 Rue de Rivoli, 
Paris, who are acknowledged to be the leading manufac- 
turers in this particular line in Europe. 

" Especial attention is directed to our Robe Depart- 
ment, in which we are showing the largest and finest 



selection of rich Sleigh and Carriage Robes in the West. 
Our stock includes Otter, Beaver, Bear, Wolverine, White 
and Red Fox, natural Seal, Badger, Coon, Wild Cat, Sheep 
and Buffalo, and we are prepared to furnish any style or 
quality of Robe to order on short notice. The Robes are 
all lined with plush and handsomely finished. 

"We are making a special feature, this season, of Ladies' 
and Gentlemen's Caps and Driving Gloves. Our new 
styles in Ladies' Hats are trimmed with fancy colored 
plumes and are very stylish. The Gentlemen's Caps are 
all satin lined and handsomely finished. The Mittens and 
Driving Gloves are lined with lambskin and faced with 
buck or French kid. Prices of these goods are very 
reasonable. 

" Of our stock of Hats, Caps, etc., for gentlemen's 
wear, which is very laige, we can assert the well known 
fact, proven by forty years experience, that it is always 
stocked with the latest styles of the season. The prices 
are the cheapest, and the variety is the greatest to select 
from, of any in Chicago. 

"And now remember, in buying Furs, that by calling 
early you can secure a first choice from the splendid stock 
of Seal and other fine Furs which we are offering ; and 
that by ordering garments in advance of the busy Fall and 
Winter season, you can secure a discount from regular 
prices, and be sure of extra care in the making up, be- 
cause the workmen have more time during the dull 
Summer months, and are willing to work at reduced 
wages." 

" Good-by! much obliged; " and we were again in 
seach of something nice. 

Urn! how the ladies did chatter about those Furs, "so 
soft," " so sweet," " so nice ! " They quite exhausted the 
entire vocabulary of exclamations adapted to feminine 
use. Their warm compliments of the courteous Mr. 
Bishop were merited, and were endorsed by all. Don 
didn't express in words, but his pencil displayed, his 
thoughts. See those sketches ? 





ANOTHER SUGGESTION. — A. BISHOP & COMPANY. 



J^RTISTIC AND WSEFUL. 




ASSING along Wabash avenue, the display of 
mantels, tiles, and brass goods, arranged in 
the great show windows of Albert A. Riley's 
establishment, at No. 178, is certain to attract 
attention, and cause one to pause and enjoy the beautiful 
array. 

It was thus with our little party of curious sight-seers. 
The keen eye of Grace instinctively caught the scene and 
led her, first to the windows and then, as a matter of 
course, inside, and we could only quietly follow. And 
we were glad we did. It was a revelation of practical 
art. Riley's mantel and tile house is really worthy of a 
visit as a museum, or gallery of art. Why, in the dis- 
play of Tiles in their hundreds of shapes, styles, kinds, 
designs and colors, are many, wonderful as specimens 
of mechanical and artistic skill, a combination of the 
potter's, the sculptor's, and the painter's genius. It is 
really surprising the e.\tent of artistic perfection attained 
in the decoration and arrangement of Mantels, Fire-places 
and Tile work. 

It is only within the past ten years that our people 
have begun to realize how much true art there is in 
a fire-place, and how much comfort and beauty they add 
to a home. But it was merely rediscovering an olden-time 
specialty, "one of the good old kind " in fact, as well as 
in sentiment. 

The display of Brass Fire-place Furniture, the lovely 
Coal Hods, (actually it is possible for a coal hod to be real- 
ly beautiful, just visit Riley's and see for yourself!) the 
picturesque Andirons, the sets of Tongs, Shovel, Poker, 



and Hearth brush, arranged in their frames, the Fire 
Guards, and Screens, the Fenders, all so clean, neat, 
beautiful and bright, are curious and pleasing. 

An inspection and study of the Tiles, that one may 
appreciate their use and intention for dining room, library, 
parlor, hall, billiard room, bath, nursery, chamber, or any 
room designed for a special use, is very interesting. 

The visitor to Riley's very quickly realizes that the 
effect possible in a fire-place, which by many has perhaps 
been thought so commonplace, is in reality very beautiful. 
And, as one slowly moves about the store, carefully 
inspecting each of the large variety of Mantels and Fire- 
places, and thinks of the deep study and real art they 
combine, the admiration of our forefathers for their 
hearthsides, as exhibited in their dwellings, their pictures 
and their poetry, and always so tender in reference to 
the yule log, the swinging crane, the bright flame, the 
hearthstone, all, is better understood and appreciated by 
the contemplative visitor. 

To describe in detail the special beauties, or values, 
of the Fire-place Fixtures and Furniture at Mr. Riley's 
establishment, is quite impossible, and will not be at- 
tempted here; but the reader's cittention is invited to the 
illustration on the opposite page of two of the artistic 
mantels, and various other specimens of his elegant wares. 

Well pleased with our inspection of the interesting 
display, and with our ideas refreshened, and our minds 
busy with a new train of thought on an old, old, subject 
— the fireside — we turned from Riley's in search of 
other scenes, curious and beautiful. 



loTES OF Motes. 




T was suggested that we next visit The Root 
& Sons Music Company establishment, 
Messrs. Church & Lee, Managers, corner 
of Wabash avenue and Adams street, where 
visitors to the Exposition turn when they wish to reach 
the main entrance. This proposition was at once favored 
by all, especially the ladies of our party, and it being 
near by we stepped in, finding Mr. E. V. Church, senior 
member of the managing firm, and treasurer of the 
Company, present, and were very quickly obtaining from 
him an insight into the interesting details of the extent 
and peculiarities of the trade of our musical world. 

"The Root & Sons Music Company," by which 
name this popular establishment is so well known to the 
people of the great Northwest, especially in musical cir- 
cles, is a corporate designation, under which a charter was 
obtained. It is a stock company, of which Mr. John 
Church is president, Mr. E. V. Church, treasurer, and 
Mr. E. R. Lee, secretary. The latter two gentlemen are 



the Resident Managers, and are so well known, from 
their constant presence, that the house is quite frequently 
referred to as Church & Lee's. 

It is undoubtedly the largest and leading music house 
west of the Atlantic cities, dealing in all manner of musi- 
cal instruments and wares; in fact, they are known to the 
trade as "General Music Dealers," and are agents for 
numerous well-known favorite musical instruments. Of 
Pianos, their stock includes the Hazelton, Decker & Son, 
Ivers & Pond, New England, Root & Sons, and Everett. 
Special attention is called to the Hazelton pianos, of 
which the firm have a magnificent stock and regard it as 
their leading instrument. Of Organs, they exhibit the 
Clough & Warren, Root & Sons, and various others, 
all well-known favorite instruments, and all of superior 
qualities. 

They are importers and jobbers of every kind of 
Musical Merchandise, Band Instruments, etc., and carry 
a stock of Music Books and Sheet Music, the equal of 



any in the world. They are also publishers of Music in 
Sheet and Book form. 

By the way, the charming melody " Only a Pansy 
Blossom," at present, and for some time past, such a pop- 
ular favorite, is one of their publications. It is worthy 
of note that considerably over fifty thousand copies 
have been sold, and the demand is yet steady and large. 
This sale is something quite unusual for any of the 
popular light melodies, and has been exceeded only in a 
very few cases. 

Strolling about in the vast establishment, the visitor 
observes that its roomy first floor is arranged as a general 
retail salesroom for all varieties of Musical Goods. The 
building is unusually broad, one of the largest fronts of 
an)' establishment on Wabash avenue. 

The second floor is entirely devoted to the Piano and 
Organ Department, and here the visitor finds these beau- 
tiful instruments displayed under the management of an 
efficient salesman, and a proficient musician, who practi- 
cally exhibits their qualities in the sweetest manner. 

The two entire upper floors ar» devoted to their Brass 
Band, Orchestra and Specialty Instruments Department. 
They are the special agents for the celebrated Brass 
Instruments manufactured by A. Le Comte & Co., Paris ; 



also, they are the sole agents for the entire United States 
for the J. B. Schall Patent Banjo, which is now recog- 
nized by the profession as the most perfect instrument 
of the kind, superior to any ever made. The house 
always carries a great stock of this class of instruments, 
and Mr. Church stated that trade in these wares is 
always good' and steadily increasing every year and every 
month. Brass bands are one of the essentials of all 
our Western towns, especially the new, rapid, booming 
sort that mostly prevail in the far West. Church & Lee 
have several excellent representatives always on the road, 
and have such a wide reputation that they supply a vast 
trade in those goods. 

While Guy and Don had been learning these interest- 
ing facts from our entertaining informant, Mr. Church, 
the ladies had also been taking notes in several octaves, 
having somehow secured the key, many keys, of the situ- 
ation from the polite and accommodating attendants, and 
they were merrily making the most of the opportunity. In 
short, our party overheard more sweet things and took 
more notes, one way and another, at Church & Lee's 
than anywhere else in all that jolly day's journey about 
town. Don didn't say much, or ask many questions, but 
the reader will see on another page how he was impressed. 



f^E JLYSTERY of iOAP-SUDS. 




OAP indeed! Visit a soap factory?" exclaimed 
(M^^Sp Grace. " To be sure we will! " replied Guy. 
sII^MJS " Why, your surprise at the idea is itself an 
evident reason for such a visit. The fact is, 
a mammoth soap factory, like that of James S. Kirk & 
Company, is always neat and clean, and one of the most 
interesting places imaginable. Kirk's is really neatness 
itself, and the odor of rich perfumes that pervades all 
parts of the vast building is like unto a balmy breeze 
wafted from the gardens of Ispahan. 

"Very few people have any idea how soap is made, or 
of the vast proportions of the business. Soap is of such 
common use that we seldom, if ever, give a thought to 
its manufacture. Why, the establishment of James S. 
Kirk & Company, on the North side, just across Rush 
street bridge, is an immense structure, all fitted up with 
massive machinery, of strange design, for curious labor; 
where nothing but the purest and sweetest of oils, the 
most fragrant of perfumes, and the most refined of chem- 
ical compounds are combined and formed into Soap — 
common, plain, but always useful Soap. But come, let 
us visit there, and you will be surprised when you see for 
yourselves." 

Guy's descriptive eloquence was convincing, and 
settled the question, and our little party were soon as- 
sembled in the handsome office of James S. Kirk & 
Company, whence, under the guidance of the superin- 



tendent, they were shown through all the departments of 
the great establishment, and given a superficial insight 
into the mysteries of soap-making. 

It was interesting, even wonderful, to see and learn 
what Soap is, and how it is made. From our guide we 
learn that, of Toilet Soaps alone, upwards of one hundred 
and fifty varieties, brands, and qualities are here made; 
also, about the same number of Laundry and the common 
brands of Soap. 

The firm of James S: Kirk & Company, father and 
sons, was founded in 1839, and is to-day one of the 
oldest and best known firms, and transacts the largest and 
most successful business of the kind in the world! 

They manufacture here, in their immense building, all 
their soaps; also, all the paper and wooden boxes required 
for packing, thus saving the paying of profits to others. 
This saving in itself enables them to successfully com- 
pete with any othei' soap-makers in the country. 

In their extensive laboratory and chemical department 
all varieties of Perfumeries are made, and a large force of 
young ladies are herein employed labeling, capping, 
wrapping, and putting up bottled goods, including Ex- 
tracts, ripe Colognes, AVaters, and many other articles and 
compounds, grateful in the toilet. 

Between five and six hundred men, women, and chil- 
dren (few of the latter) are employed in the establishment, 
and are well paid. 




The Root &. Sons Music Company, 

CHURCH & LEE, Managers, 

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS IN 

Musical Mer chandisG 

PIANOS, ORGANS. 

BRASS AND ORCHESTRA INSTRUMENTS, 

Wabash Avenue aho Adams Street. 



An idea of the mammoth proportions their business 
has attained may be learned from the fact that, in 1882 
upwards of 1,100 car-loads were shipped south over the 
Ilhnois Central Railroad alone; and over 2,000 car-loads 
to other points, via other railroads. They make upwards 
of sixty million pounds of soap annually, and sell it all. 
At times they have fully three million' pounds of soap 
in process of manufacture. 

They make soap, stamped per order, for hotels, palace 
cars, offices, railroads, steamers, and public institutions. 
They sell to dealers in England, France, Germany, 
Russia, Spain, and all the nations on the globe. 

In their engine-room stands one of the largest and 
most powerful engines in Chicago, with its battery of great 
boilers, a total of 1,200 horse-power, to supply the power 
and heat throughout the establishment. 

They are prepared to manufacture and supply glycer- 
ine for high grade explosives. 



An interesting and curious feature is the department 
where their wooden boxes are made. The flat, thin boards 
used come from their own saw - mills, in Muskegon, 
Michigan. They are prepared to proper size at the mill, 
and brought here by the ship-load. Then the)' are run 
through a regular printing press, neatly printed with one 
or more colors, and are ready for boxing. The pieces 
are set up together, the nails on each side and on the 
bottom being all driven in at once, by machinery. Sixteen 
boxes per minute are made and delivered ready for 
their contents. 

These were but 'a few of the many strange facts our 
inquisitive visitors learned, and of the curious sights they 
were shown, and they departed much wiser and filled with 
surprise. 

Said Grace, after a solemn silence of fully two blocks 
length: "Well, did you ever?" and her two silently medi- 
tating escorts, in one voice, replied: " No, I never did." 







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^HERE shall we visit next ? was the momentous 
question that now occurred to our merry 
party of wonder seekers. 

" Well," said Guy, pointing to a splendid 
business block on the southwest corner of Wabash avenue 
and Jackson street, " there is an establishment where a 
visit will both please and repay us. An inspection of the 
great stock of Pianos, and an explanation of the perfect 
manner in which the whole establishment is arranged for 
a musical emporium, exhibition salesroom, ofifices, superb 
music hall, warerooms, etc., makes it really a delightful 
place to visit." 

"Oh, that will^be excellent!" said Grace. " I know the 
place; it is Weber's, the elegant Weber Piano Estab- 
lishment; yes, indeed, let us go there." 

'Twas enough ; no further inducement was necessary. 
Our party were soon gathered in that superb salesroom, 
a vast apartment, richly decorated, and filled to its entire 
capacity with Pianos — The Weber — of every variety of 
style and ornamental finish. It was an exceedingly grand 
scene, quite impressive in its wealth of luxurious realit)'. 
Our visitors were enraptured with the display. It is a 
scene of grandeur in musical art. 

The Weber Pianos are manufactured in New York 
City by IMr. Albert Weber, whose fame is world wide. 
This establishment is a Branch House, Messrs. Charles 
C. CuRTiss and Ferdinand Mayer, Managers, and is, in 
every detail, one of the rtjost perfect structures for the 
Piano trade in all America. Nothing is left to be desired. 
The building is six stories high, of dark-red pressed brick 
and free-stone trimmings. The frontage on both streets is 
one hundred and fifty feet, with large plate-glass windows 
in front and side. The entire building is heated by steam, 
and contains all modern improvements. 

The basement is used for packing and unpacking 
Pianos, and contains the boilers, for heating all the rooms, 
and running the passenger and piano elevators. The first 
and second floors are finished throughout in hard wood. 
On the first floor are the offices and principal show- 
room, — one of the handsomest imaginable. 

The second floor contains Weber Hall, and four small 
rooms, fitted up as reception rooms, handsomely fur- 
nished, wherein parties can hear the effect of Pianos as 
they will sound in their own parlor or boudoir. The 
Weeer HaIjL seats four hundred people, and is one of 
the finest in the country. The third, fourth and fifth 
floors are arranged in small suites, for the use of teachers. 
In each suite there is a waiting-room for scholars and the 
room for lessons. A Weber Boudoir Upright is placed 
in each of the teaching rooms. In all there are about 
thirty of these suites, the greater part of them being occu- 
pied by our leading musicians and teachers. The hall is 
furnished to such teachers as make their headquarters at 



the Weber warerooms, free of charge, for the use. of 
concerts with their pupils ; thus giving them the .chance 
of presenting such pupils as desire an opportunity of 
playing in public. Weber was the first to open a Branch 
House in Chicago, and his is the first hall of moderate 
size for such purposes, all others being either too large 
for comfort, or from other causes not desirable. 

After a tour all over the building, from the roomy 
basement to the sixth floor, inspecting the handsome 
Music Suites for study and practice; the charming Recep-- 
tion Boudoirs, cosy and neat as a maiden's parlor ; the 
beautiful Music Hall, arranged with a platform and seats 
for concert recitals; our party returned to the first floor 
to see and hear the Pianos themselves. 

These superb instruments are really wonderful in 
their beauty of design, perfect taste, exquisite proportions 
and decorations, and marvelous mechanical skill. They 
are constructed of numerous kinds of wood — oak, ebony, 
maple, F.rench burl, ash, cherry, black walnut, rosewood, 
mahogany, etc., of all colors and styles of finish, so to 
harmonize with the fittings of the home room which it 
may be destined to occupy, as the crowning effect of its 
surroundings. 

Of every form and design, the Square, the Upright, 
the Grand, the Parlor Grand, the Baby Grand, 
American and English styles, the Boudoir Upright, the 
Concert Grand, the Grand Upright, in variety in- 
numerable, impossible of detailed description, but all 
beautiful to see and hear. Perfection itself! 

The popularity of the Weber Piano is great. This is 
a fact self-evident and indubitable. Probably more of 
the Webers are owned and used by members of the 
musical world, particularly the leading artists, than of any 
other make. In fact, it may be asserted that there is no 
musician of prominence but owns a Weber, or has un- 
qualifiedly testified to Mr. Weber their regard of its supe- 
riority over all others. From Messrs. Curtiss & Mayer, 
our party learned many things in relation thereto, curious 
and interesting, and they exhibited, with a pride quite 
pardonable, letters of praise from the following well known 
artists of high repute, all of whom use a Weeer : Christine 
Nilsson-Rouzand, Emma C. Thursby, Italo Campanini, 
F. Faccio, Mme. P. Lucca, S. Liebling, Emma Abbott, 
Maria Geistinger, Teresa Carreno, S. B. Mills, Mme. Etel- 
ka Gerster-Gardini, Carmen Pisani, Anto I. Galassi, Del 
Puente, Luigi Arditi, G. Thierry, Emilia Parodi, Marie 
Roze-Mapleson, F. Lablache, Mile. Theo, Signor Capoul, 
Signor Angelo, Charles Mapleson, Signor Mierzwinski, 
Signor Tomaso Costa, Mile. Paolina Rossini, Mile. Filo- 
mena Savio, Mme. Harris Zagury, Henry Piatt ; and 
hundreds of others. These are artists of world wide re- 
putation, but among local musicians the Weber Instru- 
ments are equally appreciated, as is shown by the 



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1 104 State street, corner of Washington 
street," was the response to an inquiry for 
direction to the ofifices of Messrs. Roebins 
& Appleton, General Agents of the Ameri- 
can Watch Company, Waltham, Mass. 

The question of "Pime was one that suddenly interested 
our holiday tourists, and it was resolved to proceed, as a 
" committee of the whole," to the fountain head of a 
Watch Company, and learn how Time is made, and bought, 
and sold, in Chicago. 

In the Holy Writ, St. John the Revelator wrote: 
" Time is. Time was, but Time shall be no more." But 
things have changed since the days of St. John, indeed 
they have. Chicago wasn't then in existence, nor for 
quite a deal of time afterward, but Chicago'is now one of 
the centers of the world, and there is more need of Time 
than in those slow-going ages. Time, regulation, accurate 
Time, is needed every day. The people must and will 
have it, and the American Watch Company is one of 
the great factories of the world where Time is made daily, 
in quantities to suit anything or anybody, in any place or 
climate. All done up in gold, silver, and various baser 
metals, regular first-class cases too, and under the name 
of " Watches," — probably so called because Time will bear 
very close watching, ot he slips away from us unaware, — 
it is sold to everybody. St. John was mistaken in his final 
assertion, there is lots of Time in these days. Messrs. 
RoBBiNS & Appleton supply the trade with many 
thousands of dollars of it daily, which is sent to all parts 
of the country. 

We called on Messrs. Roebins & Appleton, much 
like a cyclone of inquisitiveness, for " we all want to know, 
you know," was our sole object. We were shown Time in 
great variety of forms and richness of material, Time entire 
or Time-pieces; one Time or several Times; big Time, 
little Time; pretty Time, odd Time, wonderful Time, plain 
Time, rich Time and common Time, all sorts, but all alike 



in two essentials, all were good and accurate, for they were 
made at the famous, reliable, old established Waltham 
Watch Factory, and their pride and unequaled repu- 
tation is founded on these two principles, " excellence of 
material and accuracy of service." 

Volumes would be needed to fully describe the details 
of the great variety of Watches shown us as samples of 
what Waltham work is ; the beauty of ornament ; mar- 
velous accuracy of mechanical finish, where space is con- 
fined to limits of the thousandth part of an inch; the latest 
special improvements to measure time, even to the one 
hundreth part of a second. These matters are too fine, 
too delicate, for discursive description, and the reader 
is spared the task. Surely all must know quite well what 
a Waltham Watch is ! if not, then stand on a street 
corner and ask a number of passers-by, gentleman, and 
ladies too, " What is a Waltham Watch ? " and you will 
learn, for seven of every ten will be found possessing a 
Waltham. 

From the genial Manager present, who showed to us 
the beautiful wonders of Watch-making, and calmly an- 
swered our torrent of questions, we learned that the 
present specialty of the Watches is the celebrated Patent 
Dust Proof, Screw Bezel Case, a wonderful mechanism 
that hermetically precludes dust or moisture. It excels 
anything ever conceived for the purpose. 

Our merry party all regulated themselves — their Time, 
of course, — and we took notes of interest in Time which, • 
being of Waltham standard, were at par value — ^no dis- 
count, not a second. Our ideas being considerably 
enlightened about the value and transactions of Time in 
Chicago, and where it is mostly supplied, we again resumed 
our tour, enjoying a good time. 

Don declared his belief that the Waltham Watch 
would bear a close inspection all around the world, from 
the arctics to the tropics, and his sketch explains his 
graphic impression. 



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M fREAT InTEKPRISE, 




lARSHALL FIELD AND COMPANY ! It is 
presumable these words at once suggest to 
the reader, the business of which this name 
is an accepted synonym — Drj- Goods. 

A description of this vast industry, Marshall Field 
AND Company's Dry Goods Buslvess, is a review of one 
of the greatest commercial enterprises of the age. 

Its history is a tale of one constant unbroken career 
of success, from its incipiency until the present day, when 
it now stands as the greatest industry of all in our city, 
with annual transactions reaching far into the millions. 
The Retail establishment is a palace of beauty and com- 
pleteness, and the Wholesale building a realization of 
massive strength, absolute security and perfect arrange- 
ment for business requirements. Both are architectural 
ornaments to our city. It would require a goodly volume 
to recite in detail the entire history of the Marshall 
Field- and Company Dry Goods enterprise, a task 
that will not be attempted in this work, the object herein 
being merely to present to the reader a general review 
of its most interesting features. 

The story of a great enterprise, or of a success 
proudly won in any honorable undertaking, or of the 
worthy career of a man or firm in any field of industry 
or science, is always one of interest. There is an element 
of fascination in such a subject, entrancing to the emula- 
tive reader. It benefits and encourages others to renewed 
efforts, and arouses that healthy ambition which developes 
nations. 

The beginning properly dates from early in 1852. 

It was in October, 1868, that the firm first occupied its 
present well-known location, on the northeast corner of 
State and Washington streets, with which the business is 
now so thoroughly identified. The great fire of October 
9, 1871, swept its destructive wave over the heart of 
Chicago's industrial palaces, and in a few brief hours the 
great structure of Field, Leiter and Company, with its 
wealth of beautiful goods, had vanished, with thousands 
of other buildings. Ashes and weak tottering walls alone 
were left to mark the spot where had stood a great estab- 
lishment — the accumulation of years of patient care and 
industry. 

But it was Chicago, and Field, Leiter and Co.mpany 
were typical Chicago men, and soon was their House re- 
built and their trade resumed. 

In Januar)', 1881, changes occurred in the proprietor- 
ship, Mr. L. Z. Leiter retiring, and the name became 
Marsh.\ll Field .and Comp.anv, its present owners and 
managers. Such, in brief, is an outline of its proprietary 
career, and incidental changes and disasters ; but, it is to 
be noted that under each and all, it has constantly grown 
and expanded to its present vast proportions. 



Marshall Field, the present head of the great house, 
is yet in the prime of life, being in his forty- eighth year. 
A native of Conway, Mass., he has been a citizen of 
Chicago since 1858. Of few words, quiet demeanor, un- 
blemished moral character and habits, pleasant manner, 
liberal, thoroughly public spirited, sympathetic in nature, 
— these are the conspicuous personal traits of M-arshall 
Field. His success in his vast undertaking is an evi- 
dence of his business capacity that requires no demon- 
stration. 

Tne enterprise is dual in its operations ; a Wholesale 
trade, with its own establishment, management, and 
commercial ramifications, and a Retail trade, with its 
management and special features, each absolutely dis- 
tinct in every detail. The Managers and Superintendents 
of the various departments and sub-departments of the 
stocks in the Retail house, daily, or as frequently as 
their special line of goods need replenishing, go to 
the Wholesale house, examine, select and purchase their 
needed goods. 

The fair visitor to Marshall Field's elegant Retail em- 
porium, or the merchant from other cities and villages who 
visits the Wholesale house, each to inspect and select 
from the dainty wares or abundant lines of seasonable 
goods so lavishly displayed in either house, can scarcely 
presume to, in any degree, realize the intricate appoint- 
ments required for the perfect transactions of this great 
enterprise. Its methods and details are simply wonderful 
in their completeness. It is only by a visit so/f/y for 
observation, that one can at all comprehend the require- 
ments of such a vast business. 

Electricity, steam engines, elevators, heating and ven- 
tilating apparatus, etc., etc., to sell a paper of pins or 
stock an entire store, for a thousand of them,) in a city 
or mining camp, whether for a lady's boudoir on Michigan 
avenue or a cabin store in the heart of the Rocky Moun- 
tains. It is quite the same to M.arsh.all Field's houses, 
whichever it may be; the goods can be at once obtained, 
packed, shipped and delivered. 

Let us visit, and see, and learn. 

First we will inspect the Retail house. Entering 
one of the roomy vestibules on State street, or Wash- 
ington street, we pass into the main sales floor, hun- 
dreds of feet in depth and breadti.; high, clean, bright, 
and lighted by rows of great windows, each a single 
sheet of glass, immense in size, which line the walls 
on three sides of the building. Counters and shelved 
cases innumerable, arranged with mathematical precis- 
ion all over the acres of flooring. Novelties and wares 
of every sort, quality and make, possible in the line 
of Dry Goods, for use by men, women, children, or for 
home furnishing and decoration. Goods — rich, costly, 




MARSHALL FIELD & COMPANY'S RETAIL DRY GOODS ESTABLISHMENT.— VIEW OF THE GRAND ROTUNDA. 



plain, cheap, useful or ornamental; for use in the infant's 
cradle, for the bride, for the ball, the camp, the cottage, 
the palace or the grave. A lace handkerchief, a fan, or 
bottle of perfume for the belle; or the carpeting, uphol- 
stery and chamber supplies for the greatest hotel in Amer- 
ica. Here they are, select to your taste. 

The attendants are an army — upwards of fifteen 
hundred people — men, women, boys and girls; about 
seven hundred men, six hundred women and two hundred 
boys. The customers present at the same moment 
are, perhaps, five hundred, and perhaps five //wiisand, 
— for the latter great number is not uncommon during 
the great rush that attends the early season displays, and 
holiday openings. Yet all is quiet, subdued, orderly. 

The scene is dazzling, and to the visitor from less 
metropolitan localities, it is, at first glance and impression, 
even bewildering, yet pleasing and interesting in a high 
degree. 

The secret of this order out of chaos, is good manage- 
ment by long-trained, practical minds. 

The building has six great floors and a basement. 
The vast trade of the establishment is, for obvious rea- 
sons, divided into departments, three in number: (r) Gene- 
ral Dry Goods, (2) Carpet, (3) Upholstery. Beside these 
are two Manufacturing Departments, and the Basement 
Departments. 

The General Dry Goods Department is a vast trade 
in itself, occupying the entire first, second and fifth 
floors; it is sub-divided into thirtj'-nine divisions, as fol- 
lows: 

I, Laces. — 2, Embroideries. — 3, Sets and Ruffling. — 
4, Handkerchiefs. — 5, Ribbons, Fans and Jewelry. — 6, 
Dress Goods. — 7, Silks. — 8, Kid Gloves. — 9, Gents' Un- 
derwear. — 10, Ladies' Hosiery. — 11, Linens. — 12, Quilts. 
— 13, White Goods. — 14, Flannels. — 15, Prints. — 16, 
Linings. — 17, Notions, Thread, etc — 18, Velvets. — 19, 
Cloaks. — 20, Shawls. — 21, Ladies' Furnishing. — 22, Berlin 
Patterns. — 23, Butterick Patterns. — 24, Black Dress 
Goods. — 25, Cloths. — 26, Corsets, Hoop Skirts, etc. — 
27, Cottons. — 28, Dress-iVfaking Rooms; this division 
occupies the fifth floor entire. — 29, Fabric Gloves. — 
30, Furs. — 31, Gents' Neckwear, etc. — 32, Fringes. — 
33, Children's Suits, etc. — 34, Skirts. — 35, Gents' Hosiery, 
etc. — 36, Buttons. — 37, Suits. — 38, Children's Hosiery. — 
39, Ladies' and Children's Underwear. 

Each of these sub-divisions is under the management 
of a skillful Head of Stock, who selects and purchases 
his special line of goods, looks after his sales, etc. Each 
of these sub-divisions has an Assistant, expert and profi- 
cient, to aid his chief. 

The entire third floor is occupied by the Carpet 
Department, and the Upholstery Department occupies the 
entire fourth floor. 

Across one entire side, on the main floor, is constructed 
a parti-balcony gallery, filled with desks to its utmost 
capacity, occupied by a large force of accountants. These 
are in addition to the numerous accountants, with their neat 
desks, scattered in all convenient parts of the several great 



floors, and of the chief accountants, cashiers, etc., in the 
principal offices. The trade of the establishment is up- 
wards of Five Millions of dollars annually, and ten thou- 
sand names of patrons are frequently borne on their 
books of one date. Such is the vast responsibility of the 
accountants. 

Three very large elevators are constantly in use for con- 
venient communication between all floors. One is a 
powerful machine used only for freight, the other two 
are unusually large and commodious, constructed in the 
most elaborate manner, of costly woods and glass, and rich- 
ly upholstered, solely for passengers' uses. Also broad 
stairways, of elegant design and construction, lead to all 
the floors. 

The center of the building is occupied by a grand 
rotunda, of immense size, opening through all the floors. 
Imposing columns of ornate design, beautiful railings, and 
bracketed cornices, support each floor surrounding this 
rotunda, and it is roofed with a superb skylight that 
admits a flood of light. 

On each floor, one views a forest of massive iron col- 
umns of elegant design, supporting the iron girders, joists 
and arched tiled ceiling, and the floor above. All is iron, 
tile and stone. It is evident the present building is made 
absolutely fire-proof, or as near so as human ingenuity 
can devise. 

The sixth floor is occupied by the Fur Department, 
Lace Factory, and Carpet work-room, and there is always 
a large force of men and women engaged there for these 
purposes. 

But it is in the vast cavernous basement that the 
inspecting visitor may best discover and comprehend the 
magnitude of this great emporium. 

Here are the roomy packing, package-storage, bundle 
delivery, and boxing rooms; each alive with an army of 
men and boys, assorting and preparing goods just received 
or to be delivered. 

Also here are the toilet, cloak, and lunch rooms for the 
female employes; and the same, in separate suites, for the 
men. In each case the rooms are very large, commodious, 
neat, light, and well fitted and furnished for their needs. 
Stalls are numbered for each person, and all are in 
charge of watchful attendants; they are kept scupulously 
clean and orderly. 

Under the wide sidewalk, along the entire Washington 
street front, is constructed a long roomy gallery, fitted 
with bench seats and clothing stalls for the use of the boy 
employes. Under the entire State street pavement are the 
large, neat and commodious private closets and waiting 
rooms, for the sole use of patrons of the establishment. 

Here also are the great boilers, engines, electric ma- 
chines, hoisting machines, steam pumps, etc., for heating, 
lighting and furnishing power to the entire establish- 
ment. 

Perfect order, system, and neatness are at once evident 
in this mechanical laboratory. The absolute purity of the 
atmosphere here, and in fact over the entire building, 
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due to the perfect system of drainage and sewerage, 
which is kept in a constant state of purity by a flow of 
artesian water and steam-scouring. 

Here is an artesian well that was sunk in 1874, strik- 
ing, at a depth of about fourteen hundred feet, a vein 
that steadily supplies a stream of water of wonderful min- 
eral qualities, at once pure, pleasant, and healthful. The 
employes eagerly imbibe it. 

The building is heated by steam, supplied by five 
great boilers, aggregating a capacity of three hundred 
and fifty horse-power. These boilers are in batteries, in 
a large vaulted structure built under the alley in the rear. 
They are perfect in efficiency and safety. 

Recently the electric light has been introduced, to 
supersede the myriads of gas lights. The new system is 
the Edison patent, and numbers three hundred" and sixty 
of those powerful lights, supplied by two great dynamos, 
which are operated by a splendid engine of seventy-five 
horse-power. It is a matter of interest that the total of 
piping in the building for water, steam, gas, etc., aggre- 
gates very nearly forty miles length. 



In the packing room is a scene of intensely busy an- 
imation, and we halt a brief while to observe the opera- 
tions, A constant torrent of floor-boys keeps passing in, 
bringing goods of all imaginable kinds, each assortment 
accompanied with the directions for delivery as given by 
the salesman upstairs. 

These are quickly seized and neatly arrangea, securely 
wrapped, tied, labelled with the address, handed on to a 
recording clerk, and at last passed out to the delivering 
agent, who accompanies the driver in each of the hand- 
some Marshall Field and Company's delivery wagons, 
SIX of which, all neat stylish turnouts, are in constant daily 
use. Our escorting informant stated that the usual daily 
delivery averages upwards of one thousand packages, and 
very many more in the busy seasons. These are in 
addition to the innumerable oackages the customers 
themselves carry away. 

Such . are the curious sights we are shown, and the 
interesting history we are told, in and of the beautiful, 
busy, palatial, Retail Dry Goods Emporium of Marshall 
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'ilE JlYSTERY Revealed. 




is'^^^ID you ever visit a picture foundry? You are no doubt surprised 
Bl ft ^' '^^ question, as you may never liave heard of sucli a place. But 
^SlM: it 's ^ ^6'^y §°°'^ appellative of the place we mean ; it is not a 
picture gallery, or where pictures are sold, but where they are made. 
Well, we visited one, and it was very interesting. Of all the mysterious pro- 
cesses in the publisher's art this is indeed one of the most interesting. 

It was Blomgren Brothers and Company's Electrotype and Stereotype 
Foundry and Printers' Warehouse, 162 and 164 South Clark street, and there 

we learned many strange things 
in a very brief space of time. 

Here steam, electricity, heat, 
of the white sort, and machin- 
ery in great variety and of 
novel design, are all brought 
into practical use, and made 
commonplace and tame, like a 
gigantic but docile elephant. 

In this industry one sees 
electricity in its most 'wonder- 
ful form, as the assistant and 
skilled servant of a great busi- 
ness enterprise. 

It is an industry where every 
branch is made possible only 
by the most marvelous scien- 
tific research and invention. 
Every part, in fact, is a science, 
or the result of deep study. 
Absolute accuracy in every 
detail is necessar)', because 
perfection is required. Al- 
though the process involved is 
seemingly very mysterious, yet 
it is e.vceedingly simple when 
fully e\plamed by an e\pert. 
This IS the largest establish- 



VIEWS IN BLOMGREN BROTHERS AND COMPANY'S ELECTROTYPE ESTABLISHMENT. 



ment of the kind in Chicago, and one of the best in the 
entire country, as all the latest and most approved inven- 
tions are here employed. 

It is nine years since the Blomgren Brothers began 
this enterprise, and they have established a most enviable 
reputation, and one justly merited. They transact a vast 
business, filling orders from all parts of the United States ; 
indeed we may say from every part of the Western Conti- 
nent. Good , careful, and accurate work, together with 
moderate prices, are the evident reasons of their success. 
Upwards of fifty employes, all being skilled artisans, are 
engaged in the establishment. 

The different parts of the process, required to com- 



plete a plate, are many, and each one a science, that 
would require very considerable space for a compre- 
hensive description. To fully explain them would be to 
give a history of the electrotyping art, and require the 
investigation of many of the highest results of science. 

The best way to understand the whole matter is to 
follow the example of our party — go there; find Messrs. 
O. N. or C. G. Blomgren; hear how it is done, and be 
shown the many interesting processes. 

Look at the beautiful pictures in this book. Such 
is the neat work made by Blomgren Brothers, and 
"By their works shall ye know them." 



lUSEUM OF IrT. 




EDITATING on "whereto next?" the per- 
plexity was suddenly solved by the ladies 
catching a glimpse of the display of goods, 
innumerable in variety and wonderful in 
beauty, in the great show-windows that spread their 
attractive width fifty feet on Wabash avenue, and doubly 
as many on Madison street. 

It was the immense emporium of Messrs. Vergho, 
RuHLiNG AND COMPANY, " The Art Bazaar of America," 
corner of Wabash avenue and Madison street. Certainly we 
would visit there. And, by the way, any one who neglects 
making the visit misses one of the most interesting sights 
and displays of beautiful and artistic wares in Chicago, 
or anywhere else. . Such another stock of rich and rare 
articles is very seldom collected, and never excelled. 

We spent solid hours slowly sauntering throughout the 
great, roomy, museum-like store rooms — six floors of them. 
A veritable palace of art in its most beautiful form. 

Weeks might be spent there constantly discovering and 
enjoying new and rare sights. The sway of art is un- 
limited. It is where one feels a keen regret of brief time, 
and only one pair of eyes ! 

We looked, and looked, and wondered, and admired, 
and wished, and utterly exhausted the entire vocabulary 
of our redundant vernacular in exclamations ! interroga- 
tions ? and parenthetical hyperboles ! ! ! 

Language failed, and eyesight tired, and for relief we 
sought Mr. Archie C. Cracr.^ft, Manager of the Retail 
Department of this great establishment, to give us "points " 

One of the busiest of men, he is also unusually genial 
and entertaining; for, in addition to his marked business 
capacity and information, he has traveled extensively, and 
enjoyed observations in most of the leading cities all over 
the world. The ladies of our party at once besieged him 
with questions of " where from ? how much ?" etc., etc., for 
this is a store wherein ladies and children are specially 
delighted, and where inquisitive gentlemen can best see, 
and hear, and admire. 

" Yes," said Mr. Cracraft, " we are determined to 
lead all competitors in our special class of goods, and a 
glance over our stock will certainly convince the vis- 



itor of our success in that effort. I believe I can assert, 
without contradiction, we carry the largest, best selected, 
and richest stock of our class of wares to be found in any 
city in America cr Europe; New York, London, Paris 
or Vienna, have nothing to equal us. 

" All our foreign wares are purchased on personal 
inspection and selection. On February first I left here 
on my annual trip to Europe, and there spent five entire 
months in traveling and buying; visiting every city, vil- 
lage, and section, where any of our novelties are produced, 
and personally selected all our goods, returning here the 
first of last July. We have been twenty-seven years in 
this trade right here in Chicago, and know what our pat- 
rons desire — genuine wares, and no mere imitation. 

" In metals, we have the largest line of the most ele- 
gant goods ever exhibited in America. Cuivre Poli, 
Bronze, Nickel, Brass, Iron, Copper, comprising pitchers, 
vases, urns, figures, trays, receivers, jardinierres, busts, 
columns, lamps, staj;ues, placques, liquor, wine and tobac- 
co services, individual coffee services, tables and stands, 
mirrors, ink stands, umbrella stands, frames, heraldic and 
symbolic wall and hall decorations, odor stands, cigar 
lamps, etc., etc. Also, in bent cane furniture, in plush 
and leather goods, steam toys, electric toys, magic lan- 
terns, mechanical toys, French dolls, imported special- 
ty toys, German favors, cotillion favors, cupid outfits, 
cornucopias, amber jewelry — the largest and finest line of 
amber goods in the world — albums, music boxes, games, 
ebony and terra-cotta goods, olive wood-ware, easels, 
cabinets, and so on." But we cannot possibly enumerate 
the variety. It wpuld require more space than we can 
spare, for the list is many thousands, all beautiful, artistic, 
elegant, whether for personal or household ornament, for 
use or decoration, for pleasure or serious use. It is the 
trade museum, the Art Bazaar of Chicago, where the visitor 
may linger and revel in admiration, "Free from the sway- 
ing throng, apart from the maddening crowd." You will 
surely enjoy a visit to the emporium of Vergho, Ruh- 
LING AND Company. We did. See the beautiful sketch 
that expresses Don's artistic opinion, or ask Grace. It 
was ! ! ! — ! Go see. 




AN EXHIBIT AT VERGHO, RUHLING &. GO'S ART PALACE. 



H jtATTER OF ilGHT. 




HE immense show windows of Nos. 1S4 and 
186 Wabash avenue contain a display that 
repays a thorough inspection. It is the ex- 
tensive establishment of the W. C. Voseurgh 
Manufacturing Company, Manufacturers and Dealers 
in Gas Fixtures, and probably one of the largest and oldest 
enterprises of its kind in the entire country. 

The business was established upwards 01 twenty-five 
years ago by Mr. W. C. Vosburgh, the president of the 
company, and from whom the company obtains its name. 

The excellence of the wares, the superior workman- 
ship, and the artistic designs, all very speedily won a liberal 
patronage, and the business prospered and steadily grew 
until, at this date, it is a vast industry. At the home 
office and manufactory, Nos. 273 to 281 State street, 
Brooklyn, New York, upwards of four hundred skilled 
workmen are employed. Their Western trade rapidly in- 
creased to such an extent that it was found necessary to 
niaintain a branch establishment in Chicago to supply the 
demands. Their store on Wabash avenue is one of the 
largest and most elegant in the city; and its location is 
admirable, being in the very heart of the best lines of 
trade. Mr. C. A. Vosburgh is the resident manager of 
this house. 

An interior inspection displays to the visitor a scene of 
dazzHng brilliancy quite bewildering. The windows, 
the high side walls, the vast ceiling and the broad floors, 
are all glistening with the beautiful wares, arranged so as 
to fully exhibit their special merits of quality and value. 
The variety of design and material is something marvel- 
ous. This is explained by the fact that the company have 
in constant service a professional designer who prepares 
new ideas for all the various requirements of the trade. 



The goods are finished in the prevailing popular colors, 
with gilt and dark relief trimmings. Here, too, are French 
bronze in relief, walnut and gilt, ebony and gold, polished 
brass, and pure gold bronze (particular attention being 
directed to the last mentioned style of finish), etc., all 
very beautiful; also, all manner and styles of glass and 
pottery in infinite variety of design and color. The 
pottery decorations are particularly numerous and attract- 
ive. The company especially recommend and guaran- 
tee the general excellence of their work, as it is all 
prepared and completed under the personal supervision of 
a member of the firm. 

The bronze on all their staple brackets, pendants, etc., 
is applied by a process known only to themselves. It 
gives the remarkably brilliant gloss and superior finish 
to all that class of their wares for which the " Vosburgh 
Goods" are so famous ; and it is warranted not to flake, 
break off, or scratch. 

On the main floor the visitor is shown into a commo- 
dious darkened chamber, fitted and furnished after the 
manner of a parlor, with a superb mantel and decorated 
ceilings, everything neat and elegant, wherein the visiting 
patron may be shown the full effect, by gas light, of the 
style and design of chandelier or wall bracket .light. This 
is a very satisfactory method of exhibiting these wares. 

As a representative of one of the most important 
industries of our city, it is a very interesting place to visit. 
And our little party were greatly pleased with the beauti- 
ful wares displayed. We recommend our readers to call 
and view W. C. Vosburgh and Company's elegant 
salesrooms Nos. 184 and 186 Wabash avenue. Our artist 
gives to the reader, on the opposite page, an idea of the 
beautiful effect of a modern gas chandelier. 



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Grand Opera House, Chicago. Opera House, Marengo, Ills. 

Tabor's Grand Opera House, Denver, Cotton Exchange, New Orleans, La, 

Grand Opera House, Colorado Springs. Episcopal Cathedral, Omaha, NeD. 

And several Churches and Public buildings throughout the West and South. 




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THE EXPOSITION. — VIEW FROM SOUTH END OF GALLERY 



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' NTO the hurly-burly. Again in the Exposi- 
tion. Tired with our long rarrible about 
town, and our minds filled to repletion with 
views of the many things rare, rich, strange, 
wonderful, mysterious, grand, beautiful, surprising, fasci- 
nating, delightful, and all instructive. 

Such is the effect to be realized by one who goes on a 
rambling tour, like that our little party enjoyed, among 
the busy industries and ^enterprises of our great, throb- 
bing, energetic Chicago. It never fades from the memory, 
and is only possible in Chicago. Nowhere else, in so 
short a time, can one visit so many scenes of varied indus- 
try. Everyone, during a lifetime, should take the trip we 
did, or one similar. 

We returned to the Exposition, and after a stroll 
through the art rooms, a slow circuit of the main floor, 
interviewing the pop-corn man, and the sweet cider 
stand, and a lunch in the elegant dining room, we 



ascended to the great gallery. Quickly spying some 
vacant seats- at the south end of the gallery, which Grace 
declared were "just perfect," we ensconced ourselves for 
a spell of serene thought, listening to Prof. Adolph Leise- 
gang's excellent orchestra of thirty-two musicians, who, 
throughout the day and evening, discourse enchanting 
music, adding much to the recreative enjoyment of the 
Exposition. Our popular and famous Prof. Frederick 
Austin also aids with frequent cornet solos. 

We watched the great " maddening crowd " that 
surged to and fro, a constant torrent of happy, orderly, 
and admiring humanity, the awmanity being largely in the 
majority. It was an interesting scene. Did you enjoy 
a study of it ? Wasn't it curious ? We three — Grace, 
Guy, and Don were quite unanimous that " it beat all," 
and the latter sketched his inspiration, as you see on the 
preceding page. 



JIecha?^ic/il Art. 




[ T the south end of the Exposition stands a 
booth which attracts much notice and receives 
liberal admiration — well bestowed. It is the 
exhibit by the celebrated Goss and Phillips 
Manufacturing Company, first established in 1848, 
Manufacturers of Sash, Doors, Blinds, Mouldings, Stairs, 
Railings, Balusters, Newels, and all manner of mill work. 
They are also dealers in Lumber, Lath, and Shingles, on 
West Twenty-second street, corner of Fisk street. 

The booth is an artistic structure divided into two 
apartments, one representing a hall entrance with stair- 
way, mantel, etc., finished in red oak; the other a parlor, 
finished in mahogany; each so arranged as to display 
a large variety of mechanical decoration of superior 
workmanship, exceedingly creditable to the artistic taste 
of the designer, and the skill of the artisan. 

The stairway, the wainscoting, the two mantels, the 
doors, the door and window casings, and particularly 
the furniture pieces, are all very beautiful. 



The proprietors of the Goss and Phillips Manufac- 
turing Company make a specialty of modern architec- 
ture and decorations; and desire to call the attention of 
the public to the fact that they have on inspection at 
their manufactory on Twenty-second street a great variety 
of new, unique, and original designs of Modern Interior 
Finish, such as Doors, Pilasters, Mantels, Book- 
cases, Cabinets, Hall Furniture, Sideboards, Wain- 
scoTiNGs, etc., in Mahogany, Cherry, Butternut, 
Oak, Walnut, Maple, Yellow and White Pine, and 
all varieties of hard and soft wood. They are always 
pleased to display and explain their specimens of work- 
manship to visitors. 

A visit to the manufactory is very interesting, and will 
well repay you for the time spent, especially if one con- 
templates building a neat new home, or remodeling an 
old-fashioned dwelling. 

Their beautiful display at the Exposition tells its own 
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f HE Exhibit of ©tikota Iroducts 




ROM the line of the Chicago, Milwaukee and 
St. Paul Railway reminds us of the "Land 
of the Dakotas." However eloquent might 
be the story of Dakota's appearance before 
the world — her wonderful development — her unparalleled 
growth — her present prosperity — her promising future — 
her grand possibilities — her leading counties, their area, 
soil, climate, location, facilities — her cities, their attractions, 
resources, industrial interests, and features, the fame of 
which has already struck the tympanum of the civilized 
universe, can only be epitomized in these paragraphs. 

Not so far in the past as to be beyond recall, are the 
years when the broad prairies of the young giant territory 
that is — the mighty State to be — lay unproductive and 
idly waiting the development of their undisturbed com- 
ponent wealth. 

On the map of the world Dakota appears as a terri- 
torial dependency of the Supreme Republic — the United 
States of America — and so it is ; but it is outlined as the 
glorious Empire of the Golden Northwest, and amongthe 
" Lands of Promise." Its primitive position has vanished, 
and to-day it conspicuously appears as an object of atten- 
tion, wjiose grand agricultural domain magnifies most 
beautifully, most royally, as nearer it is approached, and 
splendidly indeed does it develop to the stranger who 
enters its portals ; for no sooner does he pass their 
threshold than he sees the sure promise of abundant 
wealth, notes with astonished eyes the wonderful advance- 
ment, hears the melody of harmonious music — the happy 
theme inspired by the realm of fields, broad, long and rich 
with wealth of fertility of wheat, corn, oats, aye, all the 
gems and jewels from the cereal and vegetable kingdoms 
— and, as thousand others have had, and reached, he has 
a bonanza before him, and is wise if he marches on to its 
possession. 

There lies, awaiting the proper claimant, a countless 
number of acres of the finest farming land in the world, 
in the southern, or that portion of Dakota famously known 
as " The Jim River Valley," nine-tenths of which is fertile 
prairie, that is, beyond all doubt, the best wheat-growing 
country on the globe. The soil is a rich, dark, vegetable 
loam, containing lime, potash, soda, magnesia, sulphur 
and phosphorus, with from ten to fifteen per cent, of finely- 
pulverized organic matter. The soil is underlaid by a 
subsoil of marly clay, and is from two to three feet deep. 
The subsoil contains from twenty to forty per cent, of 
phosphate of lime, and is a great reserve fund from which 
crops can draw sustenance whenever the soil has been 
exhausted. The whole valley is well watered by Nature ; 
there being a large number of small streams tributary to 
the Jim, or, more properly, the Dakota River, which not 
only drain the land well, but supply an abundance of 
water, and they are all, to some extent, skirted with a fine 
growth of timber. Water, clear and pure to the taste, is 
found in abundance by digging from twenty to fifty feet 
down. The climate is not severe. The winters are 



probably three weeks longer than in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois 
or Michigan. The air is clear and bracing, and malarial 
diseases are almost unknown. The inhabitants are thrifty 
and generally well-to-do, and have come from all parts of 
the globe — not to live in idleness, but at ease. 
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The Passenger Department of the Chicago, Milwau- 
kee AND St. Paul Railway has published a comprehen- 
sive description of Southern, Central and Northern Dakota, 
together with carefully prepared statistics of the crop re- 
sults for 1883, and other valuable information, which can 
be obtained free of cost, by addressing A. V. H. Car- 
penter, General Passenger Agent, Milwaukee, Wis. 

As a specimen of the productiveness of this famous 
valley, we present the evidence contained in the following 
letter, written in answer to a friendly letter of inquiry, 
which facts and figures possess a logic worth more than 
a whole volume of rheteric : 

Groten, Dakota, September 24, 1882. 
I have only threshed forty acres of my wheat ; I got 1,325 
bushels of nice wheat, or over thirty - three bushels to the acre. 
Seventeen acres of oats went fifty bushels to the acre, and weighed 
forty pounds to the bushel, making about sixty bushels to the acre. 
Corn is sound and good in the " breaking," and will run forty to fifty 
bushels to the acre. Potatoes are immense — as nice as I ever saw. 
Onions fine — some measure thirteen to fourteen inches round. Peas 
and barley are an e.\cellent crop. This (Brown) County, is equal to 
any in the Territory. The Red River Valley, in its best year, never 
equalled the crops of Brown County this year. Much of our break- 
ing was done very late last year. One-half of my forty acres of wheat 
was broken in June, the balance the last of August, iSSi, and the 
yield, as stated, 1,325 bushels. Late breaking went about eighteen 
to twenty bushels, the early, on mine, about forty bushels per acre. I 
have nearly ready 500 acres for next year's crop, having the breaking 
all done in June, and the back-setting now done ; .to complete the 
fitting of the 500 acres is only to finish plowing the stubble, which 
we are now doing. I have lots of faith in this country, and the crops 
this season strenhthen that faith very much. Land is going up here 
every day, and the tide of immigration is immense. 

Yours truly, F. D. Adams. 

" O I Dakota is a splendid, magnificent, hunkidorious 
domain — a land of majestic dimensions, a land of gold 
and silver mountains, of fruit-trees and vineyards, of low- 
ing kine and golden grain ; under the feet a carpet of 
flowers bespangled with gold-dust, and the most crystalline 
of heavens bending above and resting its arch on the walls 
of the forest. She is a regal member of the Union sister- 
hood. She has a mighty interest in the destiny of the 
Republic, and in the achievement of that destiny she 
should bear no ignoble share. In the grand orchestra of 
national glorification she should play no second fiddle or 
discordant trombone. In the swift, resistless march of 
American progress and development she should be found 
with the ' color-guards ' in the van, and not lagging among 
the shirks and sutlers' wagons in the rear. In new-world 
advancement, in the upbuilding of earth's greatest and 
grandest nationality, hers is, and should be, a glorious 
mission, a sublime work. 



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AT THE CHICAGO EXPOSITION. 



Ihe Ieality of Mkt. 




O learn how wonderful are many things of com- 
mon use, and how simple are many supposed 
wonders, and to comprehend how liberal is 
art in our household, and every-day surround- 
ings,- one should visit the extensive establishment of 
A. H. Andrews and Company, 195 and 197 Wabash 
avenue, corner of Adams street. 

A thorough inspection of' the busy industry that 
prevails throughout all that ' edifice — at once a museum 
and a bee-hive — is certainly very interesting and instruc- 
tive. Be sure and visit there, it will repay you. We 
know it, for we have done so ourselves. Being still on 
our tour of sight-seeing, our little party was attracted 
by the display of rich furniture, desks and like wares 
exhibited in the grand show windows, and — in we 
went. 

We passed along the great main floor, filled to its 
utmost with rich furniture, fixtures and furnishings for all 
manner of home rooms, and all sorts of uses, for 
offices, libraries, banks, churches, and, in short, every 
conceivable place where such things could possibly be 
needed. From this department we next passed to the 
second floor, an equally interesting place, where the 
offices of the establishment are situated. Here, in a cosy 
boudoir- like little private office, one that enraptured 
the ladies with its quiet elegance, we found Mr. A. H. 
Andrews, the head of this widely known and popular 
firm, and a most genial entertainer he certainly is. 

The building is of stone, five stories, and a roomy 
basement, of handsome architecture — substantial, impos- 
ing, and fire-proof. 

The main and second floors are entirely occupied as 
salesrooms and general offices, and are unusually neat, 
clean and attractive in arrangement and furnishings. 
All laden with a great variety of goods, consisting largely 
of elegant furniture, they present a most impressive 
appearance. The second floor is specially devoted to the 
display of desks, seats, and fixtures for opera houses,' 
schools, etc. 

The basement and three upper floors are occupied as 
workshops, principally for the " setting up " and " putting 
together " processes, the oiling, varnishing and polishing 
goods made at their extensive factories elsewhere. Also, 
for incidental repairing, and for manufacturing some 
of the finest and most delicate lines, their gold, silver, 
brass, and Jjronze decorative work, globes, maps, school 
supplies, etc., etc., a class of intricate work requiring 
much skill, and absolute accuracy. 

A stroll through these floors, beginning with the upper 
one, and slowly passing along their entire lengths, with 
frequent halts to see the many novelties being con- 
structed, or that have just been completed, and pro- 
ceeding down into the vast basement — the realm of 
the engineer, his monster engine, and the great boilers 
that furnish the power and warmth for the entire 
establishment — is indeed exceedingly interesting. It is 
stated that everything made here is unique, novel and 
artistic, and quite unlike anything of the usual order 



of manufactures. Take for instance globes. How very 
few people have ever seen globes made, or have the 
least idea how they are constructed. There are but three 
factories of those goods in all America, and this one is 
much larger than its two competitors combined. 

Upwards of ninety employes are engaged m the 
various departments of this establishment, including a 
liberal number of bright appearing young women and 
youths; but the great majority are artisans of exceptional 
skill, and the chief accountants of the company, as 
this is the main office. They have also several other 
establishments, factories and storage houses. The large 
structure on Van Buren street, formerly the Armory, of 
the First Regiment Cavalry, is now devoted to more civil 
purposes, as the finishing shop and warehouse of A. H. 
Andrews and Company. 

They have two large manufactories on the West 
side of Chicago, and one in Mishawaka, Ind., all three 
being fine massive buildings, containing powerful engines 
and elaborate machinery. Their entire force of employes 
aggregate upward of five hundred persons. At Misha- 
waka they have a very large warehouse adjoining the rail- 
way track. 

Of their specialties, almost innumerable in number, 
the attention of our little party was particularly directed 
to their recently perfected Opera and Assembly Chairs, 
having a folding seat, tilting-back, foot-rest, hat-rack, 
cane and umbrella-rack, libretto-pocket, etc.; also their 
superb Office Desk, their own patent, which won the First 
Premium at the recent exhibition of railway appliances as 
"the best desk for office use;" their Triumph Study- 
Desk for school use, which is simply perfect for comfort, 
beauty and convenience ; their Assembly Settees ; their 
Bank and Counting-house Counters and Fittings ; 
their Church and Sabbath-school Furniture; their 
Kindergarten Supplies and High School Appara- 
tus ; their Chairs, Secretaries, and Book-Cases for 
banks and libraries ; the celebrated Andrews' Parlor 
Folding Beds, the most convenient and elegant article 
of combination furniture ever invented. 

Their furniture, school supplies, and other wares would 
require many days to fully inspect, and too much space to 
properly describe. One thing is- strikingly apparent, 
that it is exceedingly interesting, and school teachers and 
persons engaged in educational affairs should make it a 
visit. It would certainly benefit all professional people, 
for it is not only a laboratory, but a museum filled with 
every possible article, device and method, theoretical and 
practical, from the merest toy for the infant in the Kinder- 
garten to the apparatus for demonstrating the evolutions 
of astronomy, or the deepest problem in philosophy. Here 
such things are found in every style. And their array 
of school furniture for the scholar, the teacher and the 
professor, all of their own design and manufacture, is 
really endless. But surely everybody is familiar with the 
celebrated Andrews' School Furniture; its popularity 
fs world wide, and its superiority in convenience, neatness, 
strength and general excellence is unrivalled. 



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THE ANDREWS' OFFICE DESK. 



PARLOR AND OFFICE FURNITURE FROM A. H. ANDREWS & COMPANY, 195 AND 197 WABASH AVENUE, CHICAGO. 



Im inicAGO Am Sorti-i- Western Railw/iy. 



Latest Reliable Information pertaining to its Lines 




HE Dining Car Line between Chicago and St. 
Paul, and Chicago and Council Bluffs. The 
Short Line to Colorado and California. 
Two Grand Routes to the celebrated Yel- 
lowstone National Park, and all points 
in Montana. One route is via St. Paul and the Northern 
Pacific Railway, the other is via Council Bluffs and the 
Union Pacific Railway. This latter named Company 
will take you to the Southern entrance of the Park in 
their own stages over their own road. 

The Chicago and North-Western Railway is the 
celebrated Dining, Sleeping and Parlor Car Route to the 
West and Northwest. 

Dining Cars, — These are the most modern, complete 
and magnificent productions of human skill and ingenuity 
in e-xistence, and are managed entirely in the interest of 
the patrons of this ro&d. The meals provided include all 
the delicacies of the season, and equal those furnished by 
any first-class hotel. These cars are run on all trains be- 
tween Chicago and Council Bluffs, and Chicago and St. 
Paul and Minneapolis. Dinner, Breakfast and Supper, 75 
cents each. 

Sleeping Cars, combining elegance and beauty, with 
a ma.ximum of comfort and safety, are run on all through 
night trains. 

Parlor Cars. — On the Lake Shore Line between 
Chicago, Milwaukee and Waukesha, are run the superb 
Parlor Chair Cars, in which passengers can ride, at only 
a slight additional expense, with as much comfort and ease 
as can be had in the best furnished parlors. These cars are 
run on trains leaving Chicago at 8,00 a. m., 8.30 a. m., 11. 30 
a. m., and 3.00 p. m. for Milwaukee and Waukesha, and on 
5.00 p. m train for Milwaukee ; also on trains leaving 
Waukesha at 7.00 a. m., 12.30 p. m, 3.27 p. m., and Mil- 
waukee at IT. 20 a. m., for Chicago. 

For information and tickets, apply to Joseph 
Couthoui, 47 Monroe street ; D. D. Drew, Grand 
Pacific Hotel ; E. Vliet, 62 Clark street ; Thomas 
Morley, Wells street Passenger Station. 

TO DENVER AND THE MOUNTAINS OF COLORADO. 

The Direct Route, and no more changes of cars than 
by any other route. 

By the Denver Junction Short Line Route you have 
Palace Sleeping Cars from Chicago to Denver, with only 
one transfer, and that in the Union Depot at Council 
Bluffs. 

Between Chicago and Council Bluffs this Line gives 
second-class accommodations to holders of third-class or 
emigrant tickets, and they make same time as first-class 
passengers. 

Emigrant tickets to Leadville secure first-class passage 
from Denver. 

150 pounds of baggage is checked through free to all 
Colorado points on each full ticket. 

Tickets to Denver and points beyond are good over 
the Colorado or Cheyenne Divisions, via Cheyenne, or via 
the Denver Junction Short Line. Through Sleepers run 
only via the Denver Junction Route, 

TO DEADWOOD AND THE BLACK HILLS, 

From Pierre the Northwestern Express, Stage and 
Transportation Company run a line of Concord Coaches 
to Black Hills' points, leaving every morning. This is the 
shortest line between Chicago and Dead wood by 150 



miles, it has less staging by 100 miles, and two days 
quicker time. The time between Pierre and Deadwood is 
about thirty-six hours. 

The new " Diagonal " Line between Hawarden, Iowa, 
and Iroquois, Dak., is nearly completed and ready for 
business. 

IMPORTANT TO WESTERN AND OVERLAND PASSENGERS. 

Second Class. — Passengers holding second - class 
tickets over this road are carried on the same train as first- 
class passengers, in comfortable, clean, warm cars, with 
upholstered seats and backs ; in fact, in nearly as good as 
first-class cars. 

Neither second-class passengers nor emigrants can 
have Palace Sleeping Car accommodations, and in this lies 
about all the restrictions that are placed on them. 

Emigrants. — The Chicago and North -Western 
Railway runs no emigrant trains or cars. Emigrants 
via this road are carried on regular express trains, in 
clean, light coaches, with cushioned seats and backs, and 
which are as good as the coaches furnished by many 
roads to first-class passengers 

A FEW good hints TO KEEP IN MIND. 

Passengers should always purchase tickets of the 
Company's Agents, and not from unauthorized parties. 
We give this caution that the Company shall not be cen- 
sured for enforcing its rules to protect its interests against 
lost, stolen, fraudulent, or expired tickets. 

Coupon Tickets. — To accommodate the public, 
coupon tickets to all important points East, .West, North 
and South are placed on sale at the important stations, 
and through baggage checks are supplied these stations to 
allow the checking of baggage through to the destination 
of the ticket. 

Parties Desiring Coupon Tickets at stations where 
they are not regularly on sale, can get them by asking the 
Station Agent to send for them. 

Baggage, — Locally, 150 pounds of baggage is carried 
free on each full ticket ; 75 pounds on each half fare 
ticket. All in excess of this is charged for. 

Stop Over Checks are issued, good for 15 days on 
regular first-class unlimited single, summer tourist and 
round trip land tickets, within certain limits only, 

1,000 Mile Tickets, at 2^ cents per mile, can be 
procured through any of the Company's Agents, 

Excess Baggage Tickets are on sale in the General 
Baggage Agent's Office, in Wells Street Depot, Chicago, 
and can also be procured through the Ticket Agents of 
the Company, 

Dogs and Guns belonging to hunters are carried free 
in baggage cars. Baggagemen are not permitted to ask 
any compensation for caring for them. 

Children between five and twelve years require a half 
ticket, those under five years are carried free, those over 
twelve require a full ticket. Conductors are not allowed 
to vary from this rule. 

Standard Time. — All trains on the Chicago and 
North - Western Railway run on Chicago time, except 
those north of Elroy, Wis., north of Elmore, Minn., and 
west of Winona, Minn., which run on St. Paul time, 
which is twenty-one minutes slower than Chicago time ; 
Chicago time is thirty minutes faster than Omaha time. 

J. D. Layng, General Superintendent. 

W. H. Stennett, General Passenger Agent. 





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LYON &. HEALYS BAND AND ORCHESTRA 
INSTRUMENT DEPARTMENT. 






N exposition in itself is this great feature of 
Messrs. Lyon & Healy's mammoth music 
house, corner State and Monroe streets. Here 
every necessity and accessory to a complete 
band or orchestra may be found, of the best quality and 
most reliable manufacture. Realizing that gold does not 
lie in every hand the same, Lyon & Healy' have 
endeavored, with the successful result which generally fol- 
lows their efforts, to place upon the market a carefully 
graded assortment of instruments which will satisfactorily 
meet alike the demands of the poor, the moderate and the 
wealthy purchaser. To this end they have secured the 
sole agencies of the moderate priced but practically made 
horns of F. J. Jaueert & Co., Paris, the higher graded 
and justly celebrated Henry Gunckel Light Action 
Horns, and the unexcelled and world-renowned English 
instruments manufactured by that King of Mechanics, 
Joseph Higham, Manchester, England, Mr. Frederick 
Austin, the celebrated cornet virtuoso, who has been de- 
lighting the Exposition visitors with his wonderful play- 
ing, says of tlie Higham Cornet : " I know of no instru- 
ment of European or American manufacture which can 
compare with this simply incomparable production of 
mechanical art." Lyon & Healy's illustrated and de- 
scriptive catalogues of their Band Supplies are the most 
complete and artistic in the world, and as a medium of 
information to the band men of America, over forty thous- 
and are sent out annually. In Violins, Violas, Violoncel- 
los, Double Basses, Flutes, Piccolos and all other Orches- 
tra Instruments, Lvon & Healy's stock is unequalled; 
and making-a specialty as they do of this class of supplies, 
their prices have been reduced to the lowest possible figures, 
consistent with the quality of the goods offered. As Messrs. 
Lyon & Healy are the largest importers and dealers 
in Musical Instruments in the United States, it is not to 
be wondered that, with their enormous stock on hand and 
their wide experience, they have superior facilities for an- 
ticipating and filling the requirements of trade. Their 
reputation is national, and well they have earned it. 




Interior View of Palace Reclining Chair Car of CHICAGO & ALTON R. R., at least two of whicli are run in all through trains 
of that Road, Day and Night, between Chicago and Kansas City, Chicago and St. Louis, and St. Louis and Kansas City, free 
of extra charge. The only line running a sufficient number of Reclining Chair Oars to aooommodate all its patrons. 




DESIGN OF A CEILING DECORATED BY CHAPMAN Sl CLERICUS. 




INTERIOR VIEWS IN ROSEHILL, LOOKING EAST TOWARD THE ENTRANCE. 



THE CITY OF THE DESD, 

" When the hours of day are numbered, 
And the voices of the night 
Wake the better soul that slumbered 
To a holy, calm delight. 

" Then the forms of the departed 
Enter at the open door — 
The beloved ones, the true-hearted, 
Come to visit us once more." 

i N placing before the public this choice and special 
collection of " picture stories " of the wonders in 
nature and art, for the aesthetical culture and 
pleasure of the living, we cannot refrain from 
saying a few words to the citizens of Chicago and vicinity in 
regard to the dead — those who have gone before, and left to us 
this magnificent city as a heritage, and as a monument of their 
wonderful energy and indomitable perseverance through life. 




Chicago has a population of more than six hundred thou- 
sand people, and by including the suburbs we have at least one 
hundred thousand more. The census of a few years will 
undoubtedly increase these figures to one million, and even 
then the city will steadily and rapidly continue to increase in 
numbers. Hence the question naturally arose in our mind, as 
it must in the minds of all, Is there a spot near this great city 
of sufficient natural advantages of elevation — over the low wet 
prairie which we find on every hand — upon which to build and 
maintain for all time a beautiful rural cemetery, worthy of the 
city and her prospective future ? 

We made a tour of inspection and investigation, for the 
purpose of enabling ourselves to definitely answer this question, 
and while we found ground used for cemetery purposes that 
we consider totally unfit, on account of location and the low, 
wet condition of the soil, we also found a tract of about five 
hundred acres possessing the following advantages for cemetery 
purposes, which we shall enumerate, but briefly: 

ist. An altitude of froin thirty to forty feet above Lake 
Michigan — thus giving sufficient elevation above the surround- 
ing prairie to insure that at all times it will be entirely free 
from water. 




LOOKING WEST OVER THE LAKE AND PAST RECEIVING VAULT. 



2d. A location away from the line of growth of the cit) 
and its improvements. 

3d. Suitable proximit_v to, and accessibility from, the cit^ 
the distance being only six and one-half miles from the central 
part of the city, accessible by railway and good carriage dri\es 

4th. Elevation and undulation of surface, giving a hue 
landscape effect to the grounds. 

Sth. Capability of extension of the grounds to meet the 
wants and requirements of the public for cemetery purposes 
for hundreds of years. 

In short, a spot described by a special committee composed 
from the Common Council, and a large number of the most 
prominent and intelligent citizens of Chicago, appointed for 
the purpose of selecting a suitable site for a new cemetery as 
follows : 

"After a careful survey and topographical reconnoissance 
of the vicinity of Chicago, this committee selected the grounds 
on which Rosehill Cemetery is located ; the lands being from 
thirty to forty feet above Lake Michigan, covered with timber 
commanding a view of the lake, and being sufficiently high 
above the surrounding prairie to ensure that at all times the\ 
shall be perfectly free from water, and possessing all other 





VIEWS LOOKING WEST FROM THE ENTRANCE. 



needed qualities to make a first-class rural cemetery ; they 
were unanimously pronounced by the committee to be not only 
the best, but the only spot in all respects suitable for such 
purposes within the same distance from Chicago." 

On the strength of this report we iind that Rosehill Ceme- 
tery was incorporated February 11, rSsg, and dedicated for 
cemetery purposes on the twenty-eighth day of July, in the 
same year. A visit to this beautiful spot will well repay the 
reader. 

The natural advantages of the grounds, together with the 
artificial adornments that have been lavished upon them, has 
nlade Rosehill in reality the Greenwood of the West, where it 
can be truly said : 

" The cool groves rising round. 

The slopes beneatli them spread, 
We consecrate with awe profound 
Forever to the dead." 



INTERIOR VIEWS IN ROSEHILL. 




IN QUEEN'S CANON. 



THE SWITZERLAND OF flMERICK. 



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'/JT^B HROUGH the courtesy of Mr. F. C. 
Nims, the genial passenger agent of 
the Denver & Rio Grande Railway, 
we are permitted to present our 
readers with a few of the beautiful engravings 
which adorn the pages of his forthcoming book. 
The Crest of the Continent. 

While the book is the creation of Mr. Nims' 
fertile brain he has employed the brush and pen 
of some of the ablest artists and writers of 
America to carry out his plan in detail. And 
wisely, too, for the busy life of a general pas- 
senger agent gives little time to devote to the 
pleasures of literature, no matter how strong his 
tastes may be that way bent. Yet so closely has 
the author watched the growth of his favoreil 
child, that every drawing of the artist passes 
under his eye before the graver's tool touches 
the block, and not a single line of type is put into 
electro-plates until scanned by Mr. Nims. 

Nowhere does intelligent labor bear fruit more abun- 
dantly than in book-making, and those who delight in 




CURRECANTI NEEDLE. 



reading about the wonders of our own land will be well 
repaid in perusing this little volume, which, we are in- 
formed, will be out for the Christmas holida)'S. It will be 




ASSEMBLY HALL. TABERNACLt AI>1U ILMKLE. bAL 1 LAKE. 



an exhaustive description of the scenery, mineral re- 
sources, agricultural lands and manufacturing" interests of 
this wonderful and enchanting country. 

The iUustrations will be numerous, and from the few 
specimens we give, all lovers of art will readily see their 
high character. One of our artists, in examining a set of 
proofs that lay on the writer's desk, exclaimed: "Beauti- 
ful! every one a gem and worthy of a frame of gold." 

It seems like a dream when we think of this country, 
which, a few years ago, was almost as little known to us 
as the mid-lands of Africa, being traversed to-day in the 
comfortable palace Pullman, and the realities of this new 
book read to us as marvelous as did the fiction of Gul- 
liver, in our youthful days. We are informed that 

"The Denver and Rio Grande Railway has now become a trans- 
continental route, connecting the trunk lines at Denver and Pneblo 
with the Central Pacific at Ogden. While its bi^anches still form a vast 
network over all Colorado — reaching" every mining camp and pro- 
ductive section of the State, penetrating deep canons, and climbing 
the highest mountains — the main line has been e.xtended westward 
over snowy heights, through shadowy gorges, across plains and up 
fertile valleys, to and beyond the City of the Saints. A profusion of 
grand and beautiful scenery exists along its entire length. There 
are mountains of every conceivable shape and size; secluded parks 
containing long stretches of the fairest farm-land; foaming torrents 
and broad rivers; wild, dark canons; dense thickets and mirror-Iikc 
lakes nestling beneath green mountain slopes. The topography con- 
stantly changes; now the eye rests on the wildest grandeur, and 
where the elements hold uncontested swav; then the scene is mlkl 





MANITOU AND PlKE'S PEAK, 

and beautiful, with rich simplicity. At one time confusion, at an- 
other perfect order. Arctic heights this hour, summer lowlands the 
next. Farms are lost only to reappear beyond the forests which 
intervene; tiny streams become ^\ide rivers, and changes are wrought 
as quick as thought while moving swiftly on from town to city. '1 he 
road opens to civilization some of the richest districts of both the 
state and the territory. The western limits of Colorado and the 
eastern confines of Utah, the wealth of the Wasatch Range and the 
prolific Utah and Salt Lake valleys, are brought into direct commu- 
nication with the East and placed within reach of the capitalist and 
the settler." 

Those in quest of the beautiful and grand, pleasure, 

or health, have here before them a field well worthy their 

attention, and any information desired respecting it will 

be promptly given by Mr. Nims, at Denver, Colorado, or 

his gentlemanly representative, Mr. W. B. Cobb, Sherman 

House Block, 135 Randolph Street, Chicago. 




THE ROYAL GORGE. 



MANITOU MINERAL SPRINGS. 




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N placing our Sketch Book before the public, 
we would be derelict did we not inform tliem 
of the aids our skilled workmen had to enable 
them to give the best effects of the Artist and 
Engraver. Printers and publishers, who are constantly 
striving" to render these results, know how largely their 
success depends upon the Paper-maker, Ink-maker, and 
Press-builder. 

Paper may be good, yet too highly sized, making it 
stiff and harsh; often too much calendered, being 
" crushed," and giving the surface a greasy look — as hard 
to print on, almost, as steel. It may be glossy and showy, 
and not have the stock needed for good printing qualities, 
being over-charged with clay. It may contain the best 
of stock, and not sufficiently calendered, giving it a 
spongy nature, and even showing the felt marks, defy- 
ing all efforts to make work look well. 

It is of little consequence, however, what paper we 
use, unless our Ink is of the right make. A poor or un- 
certain ink-maker is responsible for a great deal of the 
profanity of the Press-room. Unfortunately the incentive 
is not needed. No good press-work can be executed 
without suitable ink. It may be of the best quality, yet 
too string)' and stiff for our climate, or it may be too short 
and " buttery." It may be so surcharged with color that 
it works almost like shoe-blacking, or so full of varnish 
that it looks greasy on the sheet. May have density of 
color and not good working qualities. Has good work- 
ing qualities, but too light. Will work cuts, but not letter- 
press. Will work letter-press clean and sharp, but too 
weak for cuts. Now, if the reader will look over the leaf, 
he will see an illustration of the factory where our friend 
Wilson compounds and makes the inks we use so largely 
on fine work. This new factor)' gives The W. D. Wilson 
Printing Ink Company facilities not surpassed in the 
country. Being recently constructed, they have adopted 
all the known improvements in the art. To this is added 
the superintendence of a practical printer, Mr. James 
Macnamara, and the long experience of the President, 
Mr. W. D. Wilson, in the Ink trade. They manufacture 
their own blacks, cook their own varnishes, compound and 
grind inks of all grades and prices. Thus having the 
whole thing under their own control, we can always 
depend upon utiiformity, so much to be desired by 
all large consumers of fine goods. This is greatly 
aided by their system of recording all "batches" of 
special makes. 



But all this would avail us little, were it not for the 
machines on which we use this superior ink. In our 
press-room we are running five Campbell Presses, but 
the queen of all is the latest we have added this spring. 
It is known in press-room parlance as the " Double- 
ender," and the inventor claims it does its work doubly 
as well as those of other makers. Be that as it may, we 
know it suits us on our class of fine work, and we submit 
the " Sketch Book " as a sample of its capabilities. 

Our fine illustrated trade was increasing beyond our 
facilities, and in looking over the points of excellence in 
the various machines, with a view of getting the best for 
the purpose, Messrs. Shniedewend & Lee, the general 
agents of the Campbell Company, induced us to try the 
" latest." We did so, and do not regret it. The machine 
was built with especial care, and no pains spared in giving 
us the best. One very commendable feature of the 
Campbell is the sensitiveness of the cylinder to the 
"overlay; " every ply of paper, be it ever so thin, shows 
immediately the spot on which it is placed. 

If the reader will look at any of the fine illustrations 
in this work, where there are solid blacks and light shad- 
ings in same cut, they will easily see how strong the heavy 
parts are brought out, and how delicate and vapory the 
semi-tones appear. Add to this the rapidity with which 
we " make ready" on the Campbell, compared with presses 
of some other makes, and we pay a deserved compliment 
to the " Double-ender," when we say it has vastly lightened 
our labors, and increased our bank account. What more 
need we say to the intelligent Printer ? 

The attention of the reader, visiting the Exposition, 
will be attracted to two printing establishments. Both are 
daily newspaper and jobbing offices for the Exposition 
world, and employ Campbell Presses, thus giving the 
visitor an ample opportunity to study the working capacity 
of those famous presses. 

One of the establishments is The Exposition Daily 
Revitiu, Messrs. Cushing, Thomas & Co., Managers and 
Editors, which is printed on a Campbell Two-revolution 
Four-roller Job and Book Press, and no further descrip- 
tion is needed — the press and its work fully tells its 
own stor)'. 

The other Exposition printing establishment is The 
Exposition Daily Telegram, Messrs. W. L. Allen & Co., 
Managers and Editors. This is the official organ of the 
Exposition officers, and is also printed on a Campbell, 
known as a Two-revolution Intermediate Press. 




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